I’ve been coding for years in a multitude of languages, but other than one c class I had in college I mostly learned through osmosis, or learned new things as they were needed.
So my knowledge is honestly all over the place and with a ton of gaps.
I’m trying to learn rust and starting going through The Rust Book and afterwards I plan on going on Rust by Example and trying to code my stuff as strictly following best practices as possible.
Is that a waste of time? I mean rawdogging it has been working for me for a decade now. Should I just yolo and write what I wanna write in Rust and learn as I go?
Yes. I think it’s massively useful to learn coding in a structured manner. And books will do that. I usually read at least one chapter at a time and then try to apply it. Either myself, or do the attached assignments. Plus it’s relatively fast to learn with proper material. You don’t need to search for the information yourself, they’re in the correct order and you’re unlikely to run into some dead ends because you missed some more fundamental knowledge (if you taught it yourself pretty randomly).
If I already know things, I just read a few more chapters at a time. That’s also some nice thing with books (in my opinion) you can read them as slow or fast as you like.