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I thought copy pasting code from tutorials was cheating until I built a working tip calculator in one evening
For 2 months I retyped every line by hand because I felt like pasting was fake learning. Then last Tuesday I pasted a chunk of code from a free site into my little tip calculator project, changed the numbers around, and watched it actually run for the first time. Turns out I learned way more from breaking and fixing someone else's code than from typing it perfectly. Anyone else start out scared of copy pasting, or was that just me?
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thomas_campbell392d ago
Reminds me of when my uncle taught me to change a tire. He did the first two lug nuts, handed me the wrench, and said "now you do the rest, just don't cross thread them." I learned more from finishing what he started than I ever did watching a video about it. Same goes for code, you need to get your hands on something that already works and mess with it.
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