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by westurner 3051 days ago
> Read your programming book as normal. When you get to a code sample, read it over

> Then close the book.

> Then try to type it up.

According to a passage in "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" (1791) regarding re-typing from "The Spectator"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_...

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