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Originally posted by Brandon Martus
I just remember in college, almost all of the grad students in one of my classes printed out some sample code that we had to use in a program. They then proceeded to type it back into their own program. Uhm... copy/paste?
There must've been about 15 people doing this. I was so dumbfounded.
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Actually, that's not as dumb as it sounds. The main reason for someone doing this is so that they actually understand what they're doing. By typing it back in, they have to think about what they're typing and actually figure out what it does. It's the same reason you'd want to actually type sample code from a book. You don't learn anything by copy-paste.
Matt