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Re:To Develop Expertise, Motivation is Necessary but Insuffi... by DamagedProperty on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:19AM (#3282437)
I feel that the end result of polished code isn't useful unless you can see the process they went through to get there. It seems difficult to retrace their footsteps.
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Re:To Develop Expertise, Motivation is Necessary but Insuffi... by abecedarius on Sunday November 27, 2011 @03:40PM (#3283346)
I've found that extra info to be interesting and useful, it's true, when I can get it. For instance, Norvig's Lisp-in-Python essays came out with the code still in some flux and I could compare his improvements to mine.
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