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RealityVoid 2 hours ago

Absolutely not. Learning has been to experiment with the things until you form a effective mental model of the thing. Writing things does ab-so-luetely nothing except make you feel good in the moment. Just like listening to a lecture without engaging with the subject matter deeper.

Writing things down is important for organisational persistence of information but that is something else.

direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Writing is better than reading, but doing is better than writing.

shimman an hour ago | parent [-]

How does this apply to coding when the act of writing IS doing? Or do you mean like coding "on your own" versus following a tutorial for example?

coldtea an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Means writing code (doing) vs writing documentation / plans / project architecture documents and so on.

direwolf20 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Writing code is doing