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by koliber 848 days ago
> has never learned the value of carefully going over each text before submission.

Exactly. Proofreading and double checking is a valuable skill/habit. I would consider the programmers that learned this to be better programmers. I’d venture a guess that those that learned this early on got better grades. I can use the grade as an aggregate proxy score of a bunch of different abilities and habits. Many of those are helpful at work.