Re:Carbon: Create and share images of source code
by tsumnia on Sunday May 10, 2020 @04:07PM
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> Code should be compact and functional, not airy.
I would have to disagree for similar reasons to fooker.
> It breaks copy & paste, ... not for actually communicating about code or writing tutorials.
I posted it in another respond, but my research shows retyping code can be beneficial for learning. This extends to pre-internet coding books where that was the only way to recreate the code and Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" [1] where he explicitly states "You must type each of these exercises in, manually. If you copy and paste, you might as well not even do them."
I would have to disagree for similar reasons to fooker.
> It breaks copy & paste, ... not for actually communicating about code or writing tutorials.
I posted it in another respond, but my research shows retyping code can be beneficial for learning. This extends to pre-internet coding books where that was the only way to recreate the code and Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" [1] where he explicitly states "You must type each of these exercises in, manually. If you copy and paste, you might as well not even do them."
[1] https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/intro.html