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Yesterday a student came to me with project questions. She was trying to learn some ground-level tool basics (how useState works in React, but details don’t matter), and she was just hopelessly confused: the pieces were there, fragments of nascent understanding littered all around, but somehow it just wasn’t coming together for her.
She walked me through her fragments of non-working code, and as I was trying to figure out how she’d got so lost, she popped back to her documentation source:
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ChatGPT.
I had her type “react usestate” into a search engine and showed her how to identify the React project’s •actual documentation• in the search results.
She looks at it. A long pause. Then: “This is SO much better.”
After who knows how many hours of struggle, she was unstuck in 5 minutes.
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@inthehands Maybe it's time to update the old "Documentation vs Stack Overflow" picture.
