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by imdsm 1804 days ago
20 years ago I would download as many projects as I could fit onto the floppy disks I had on me within the time I had access to the internet. I'd scour planet source code, and all the others, and get all those zips. All I'd have is the title to pick from. Then I'd go home, open them up, and pour over the code, understanding it, ripping it apart, re-using it. I learnt so much.

As an educational tool, being able to generate code and then pick it apart is as important as learning to put code together from nothing.