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@sue@glasgow.social @grimalkina@mastodon.social

> there is value in the process rather than just in the output

This seems a crucial aspect that is frequently being ignored, and I suppose I see this highlighted as somebody who's doing some teaching at the moment. Brandon Sanderson (the author) has a saying he's given several variations of that boils down to "I didn't get any money for all the books I wrote before I got published, but I did get a better writer and a better person from them."

On the other hand, I started programming by literally automating my then data entry job out of existance. I didn't learn any more manually copying the data between a spreadsheet and a database the third time than the second.

But I think we're terrible at judging what is and what isn't a learning experience and worth doing, and even worse I think that can change with both experience and situation. My advice on whether to use an automatic website creator is going to different if you're an art student who needs an online portfolio right now, or if you want to be a website designer.

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> there is value in the process rather than just in the output

This seems a crucial aspect that is frequently being ignored, and I suppose I see this highlighted as somebody who's doing some teaching at the moment. Brandon Sanderson (the author) has a saying he's given several variations of that boils down to "I didn't get any money for all the books I wrote before I got published, but I did get a better writer and a better person from them."

On the other hand, I started programming by literally automating my then data entry job out of existance. I didn't learn any more manually copying the data between a spreadsheet and a database the third time than the second.

But I think we're terrible at judging what is and what isn't a learning experience and worth doing, and even worse I think that can change with both experience and situation. My advice on whether to use an automatic website creator is going to different if you're an art student who needs an online portfolio right now, or if you want to be a website designer.