Mastodawn

If you learned to code recently, like in the last year, would you rather learn concepts first to build programs, or look at small example programs first and be explained the concepts used in them?

Concepts first, programs later

25.2%

Programs first, concepts later

44.8%

Other (reply)

0.7%

Show me the results

29.4%

Poll ended at Mar 26 at 10:29pm.

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Laura Langdon

@AlSweigart Secret menu option: get a narrative bird’s eye view of the concepts, then see the small example programs to get a sense of the concepts in context, then nitty-gritties. I did my degrees in pure math, though, so I might be an outlier in my conceptual vs concrete sort of preferences.