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Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand by bbctol on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:24PM (#12407168)
I don't remember which one, but one of the plethora of "teach yourself to code!" guides floating around the web has all of their code snippets as images, so every time you used one of their example programs, you had to type it in by hand. It was horribly annoying (so I stopped,) but it was a deliberate choice to try and force understanding.
Re:The Lost Art of Typing Shit by Hand by dceddia on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:27PM (#12407197)
Yeah that seems to go a little too far. There are valid reasons for wanting to copy-paste code, even if it should be typed out most of the time.