What should be the ratio of practice to theory when studying programming?

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Programming

Hello. I'm learning programming and I have a question. I heard more than once that practice, direct experience of writing programs is very important in programming. This is clear. But after all, books / materials also need to be read in order to learn new information. Hence the reasonable question: what is the best way to allocate time? Let's say I can spend 8 hours per day programming, how many of them should be allocated for reading books / articles, and how many directly for code? Or maybe it's better to alternate theory/practice days? In general, what are your experiences or thoughts on this matter.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The main thing is not to waste a single minute on such garbage as thinking about this question.

Answer 3

As Gagarin said: do what makes you rush and you will be happy.

Answer 4

Just dedicate those eight hours to programming. And life itself will tell you what you need in this or that case.

Answer 5

From my experience: there should be a theoretical base, and then on its basis we perform practical tasks, if there is not enough knowledge, we turn to theory (essentially comes down to googling on stack overflow and studying the functions used).

Answer 6

Pareto law to the rescue