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Overheard a bootcamp grad trash my tutorial, then checked their code
Sitting in a library in Austin last Tuesday, I heard two people say my free JS guide was 'too basic' for real beginners. Turns out they were both stuck on the same fetch API example I wrote back in March. I pulled up their GitHub and one of them had a missing semicolon and a hardcoded API key in the source. Has anyone else had their teaching material roasted by folks who skipped the fundamentals entirely?
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miles_roberts227d ago
The hardcoded API key is the part that gets me, because that is a real security problem and not just a style thing. When a beginner copies a fetch example and pastes in their own key just to get the demo working, they walk away thinking that is how it is done in real code. I run a small study group at a library in Dallas and we see this all the time, people jump to the "cool" part of a project and skip learning how requests actually work. The thing is, once the key is public on GitHub, bots scrape it within minutes and someone else runs up the bill. That fetch example you wrote was probably doing them a favor by keeping it simple, since they clearly needed the basics before touching real keys. The roasting says more about what bootcamps rush past than about your guide.
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