[StefanKarpinski]

Regardless of whether you are right or not, your tone is very off-putting. This is not an academic concern – this sort of attitude is a huge part of why the tech community ends up being very exclusionary. Oh yes, watching someone make mistakes while learning how to build a web application or learn regular expressions is hilarious. Much better to laugh condescendingly while watching them struggle than try to help. Concocting "straw man" noobs everywhere who do things in obviously wrong ways doesn't make you more right. And it definitely doesn't make you smarter. It just makes you seem like a jerk and makes it a little harder for people to stomach getting into the tech field. Please stop.