PSA: W3Schools code is costing you time in the long run

I've been helping out in a Discord server for new coders, and I keep seeing people copy-paste from W3Schools without really reading the docs. Last week alone, three people in there had bugs because they used an outdated function from that site. It's great for a quick glance, but the examples skip error handling and edge cases. Try MDN or the official docs when something breaks, has anyone else noticed this pattern with tutorials?

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johnflores19d ago

Copy-paste habits are hard to break once they feel easy. The real issue is people treat W3Schools like a reference manual when it's more like a cheat sheet, so they never learn to check for edge cases until something blows up. MDN is clunky at first but it actually teaches you why things work, which saves way more time later.