Friday, March 22, 2013

Repost of coding tip


Interesting tip on the process of coding on tumblr from Brad Milne:
The One Tip That Will Help You Learn To Code 10x Faster

The information about a trap was what struck me:
To be honest, it hurt when I heard it because I literally have spent probably close to 100 hours so far looking for answers online and getting caught up into learning something else. You know how it is… because you don’t know what you don’t know it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that whatever you’re learning at the time is worthwhile. IT ISN’T.
It reminds me of a search tree that has branched too widely on a breadth first search or has gone too deeply on a depth first search. It seems one needs a heuristic to bound the search. But as he states, you don't know what you don't know, so it is hard to estimate the distance to finding the goal node from the node you are on.