1 |
When
I
took
a
high
school
programming
class,
the
way
the
class
worked
was
that
we
would
literally
transcribe
code
from
a
textbook
into
a
compiler.
More
often
than
not,
the
verbatim
code
never
worked.
Regardless,
the
goal
was
to
make
a
program
that
could
run,
so
were
effectively
forced
to
understand
what
the
code
was
doing
so
that
we
could
correct
the
typos
and
logic
bugs.
Weirdly,
my
classmates
and
I
would
pick
were
successful
at
picking
up
the
language
despite
just
transcribing.
Not
sure
if
that
was
the
goal,
but
it
was
nonetheless
a
very,
very
useful
learning
method
whose
effectiveness
surprises
me
to
this
day.
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1 |
When
I
took
a
high
school
programming
class,
the
way
the
class
worked
was
that
we
would
literally
transcribe
code
from
a
textbook
into
a
compiler.
More
often
than
not,
the
verbatim
code
never
worked.
Regardless,
the
goal
was
to
make
a
program
that
could
run,
so
were
effectively
forced
to
understand
what
the
code
was
doing
so
that
we
could
correct
the
typos
and
logic
bugs.
Weirdly,
my
classmates
and
I
would
were
successful
at
picking
up
the
language
despite
just
transcribing.
Not
sure
if
that
was
the
goal,
but
it
was
nonetheless
a
very,
very
useful
learning
method
whose
effectiveness
surprises
me
to
this
day.
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