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Comment author: Lumifer 16 July 2015 05:53:35PM 2 points [-]

Immersion work well for beginner language learning because natural languages are fine with loose, sloppy, full of errors mishmash. The point is to get going and fix all problems later. I don't think this would work well with programming languages.

Comment author: Vaniver 16 July 2015 07:45:06PM 1 point [-]

This seems pretty similar to the "search for what you want on StackExchange / GitHub and copy/paste" approach to learning to code, which appears to work fairly well.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 July 2015 08:02:28PM 2 points [-]

I suspect it works well for picking up a new language when you already know how to code. I doubt this is a good method for beginners in programming.

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