I posted to reddit, asking if other programmers learned the craft via copy work: Did you copy/transcribe code from books when learning to program? Lots of self-selecting confirmation bias + survivorship bias. E.g. those that survived (and are on reddit and comment on questions) used this method, those that didn’t, didn’t. I guess I really want to hear stories of people that don’t learn this way. The copy-and-pasters (code copypastas? the horror!). What is “copywork with code” called...
