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Discussion on: [On-Demand Talk] The Beauty of Being Stuck

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Michael Tharrington

Heyo! If you have any questions for Jonathan (@jonoyeong ) please drop them here! 🙏

We're gathering up these questions for the live speaker discussion coming up later on. 📣

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Jos O'shea (they/them)

I'm early on in my learning journey. I've been coding little one page vanilla JS apps just to practice and on a couple of them have felt completely lost before starting but eventually after the coding equivalent of throwing spaghetti at a wall figure it out on my own . You said in your talk there's value in reaching out for help when you're stuck and I'm sure I would've solved these problems faster with guidance but is there also value in just hacking at it until you get something that works?

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Jonathan Yeong

Yes for sure! There's no hard and fast rule, it's all guidance. And everyone has their own way of approaching a problem. I'd still suggest using a timer to set how much time you hack on a problem. In a job you might not want to spend too much time on a task. And even though you might happily hack away, it may be a detriment to your work.

A timer is also a nice break, and a point to pause and reflect on how far you've gotten!

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Jos O'shea (they/them)

Thanks for the response!