Why You Should be Doing More Copy-Paste Tutorials

And how to move past them

Leo Carvalho
codeburst
Published in
3 min readSep 3, 2020

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Programming tutorials are a complicated matter. If you’re learning how to program, inevitably you’re going to come across a point where you have to just copy someone’s code. This is a dangerous activity, and if you don’t do it correctly then you won’t learn.

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