A pro baseball player can tell if someone is throwing a baseball well by watching them do it. Baseball training camps like pitching workshops often bring in pro players to coach new players on technical points of pitching.
If those pro players go 10 years without ever pitching a ball, they'll still know all the rote technical details on an academic/ theoretical level, but their actual pitching ability will have diminished, because skills are perishable. Coding is a skill.
Observing someone else code is not practice for coding yourself, and will not maintain (nevermind improve on) your coding skills.
If those pro players go 10 years without ever pitching a ball, they'll still know all the rote technical details on an academic/ theoretical level, but their actual pitching ability will have diminished, because skills are perishable. Coding is a skill.
Observing someone else code is not practice for coding yourself, and will not maintain (nevermind improve on) your coding skills.