the_sam•7mo ago

Question about starting with a home automation script as your first code

Writing a light timer script was my breakthrough, but is hardware too distracting for learning basics?

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miles_anderson97mo ago

Wait, you think hardware is a distraction... that's wild to me. Fiddling with a real light and timer forced me to learn error handling and logic way faster than any textbook example. The distraction of it not working is exactly where the real learning happens.

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riley_park377mo ago

Totally, debugging real stuff is the whole point.

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iris186mo ago

But where's the line for you between a useful hardware problem and just fighting bad tools? If a sensor is poorly made and gives junk data, is debugging that still teaching real stuff or just wasting time on a broken part?

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