As a developer, do you think reading code can improve your coding skills?

I've learned a lot watching youtube videos (or other platforms). You can learn a lot of tips and tricks from other people.

Sometimes we make the mistake that we think we know everything, but you always can improve your skills or learn something new!

I do think it can help. But I see practical exercises as the most important thing to learn programming. If you come across errors here and then read through code and code examples in documentation and forums, you grow with it.

It can definitely improve your skills. You can see ways that you can do things better, cleaner and faster, among other things. It can also show you that there is always room for improvement.

I think it helps immensely, especially when the code you are reading is at a higher caliber than yours and can expose you to new ways to use the language or framework of topic. In the past two years, ramping back up into real development, it has been instrumental to review other code. I even hired a few engineers for side work to build specific items of apps, to learn how they did it and understand it to then add the methodology to my practice.

The one thing I love about development is that you can, and should, always learn new things.

I also think that it is very beneficial. I like watching live streams where people build projects on the fly. That way I see their thought process, troubleshooting skills and problem solving in general.