Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge. Describing the code, and comparing to what it actually does, exposes inconsistencies. Explaining a subject also forces the programmer to look at it from new perspectives and can provide a deeper understanding.

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[–] 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

works even for non programming stuff. its letting our brain process the information in order ans organising it

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I write a lot of notes, because I can't trust myself to remember details of any project after a day or more of hopping through multiple other tasks and online information onslaught. This particularly concerns any problems on which I get stuck — and whaddayaknow, writing out what specifically doesn't work and how it should work, helps with realizing why it might not work.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah. I'm no programmer but I've had it often that I couldn't find a solution for a problem myself, said 'fuck it, I'll have to ask the internet', and by writing out what my problem was I figured out the solution so I never even posted the half-written posts lol

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