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How do you figure? Reading source code is incredible helpful for understanding how to program properly. Watching somebody step through their code and solve each problem in real time would be absolutely fantastic for understanding problems and organising solutions. Also what's wrong with code as a verb for programming?

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Reading "refined" source code for projects will likely teach you significantly more about programming if that's what you wanted to learn. These videos are mostly to see someone else's process rather than the code itself.

For example, I watched the linked video. Using it as an example for Python programming would be terrible - it does not follow PEP8 (extremely long lines, no spaces around operators, excessive descriptive names ("Java style")), has many unnecessary assignments and copies, very few comments, no sphinx docstrings, etc...

Coding sounds like a monotonous task of slapping together stuff until it works without any thought about architecture, testing, or anything 'big picture'.

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