If you're new to #python programming, welcome aboard! I've spotted a few techniques that newcomers miss out on and thus learn more slowly.
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On teaching Haskell, and which parts of the semantics are tricky for newcomers: https://ciobaca.substack.com/p/pedagogical-downsides-of-haskell
I'm not convinced that offering the staging area is a good default for git.
It's an abstraction that newcomers have to learn before their first commit. Subversion style "commit every tracked file" isn't as pretty (`git add` is general) but it's the common case.
Reflections on ten years of Erlang, teaching novel ideas to newcomers, and whether 'killer apps' get more contributors or just more users:
