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“Never had one lesson.” Ferris Bueller

Self-taught Python, and PHP before that. The course I always wanted might be named, “Systems: static and flexible abstractions”

Which is an expression of the frustration I had trying to learn frameworks (I forgot I attempted to learn Drupal until I read this question), where I found it nearly impossible to ask questions on SO (a lot of ‘stay in your lane’ remarks).

And the frustrations I feel today when I try to reconcile my understanding of Python used in the ‘systems’ I created for CLI scripts, and the baffling brain fog I experience when trying to understand how someone else’s code works.





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