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As a kid I had a multitude of "from zero" projects. There was no Internet. No SO. There were reference books and manuals but none of those really let you just
by YZF 4y ago
As a kid I had a multitude of "from zero" projects. There was no Internet. No SO. There were reference books and manuals but none of those really let you just copy paste your project. Later on I worked in environments with many smaller projects that again I took on from zero and worked on for years.
Boy do I miss those days now that I work for larger companies and with larger teams where the opportunity to do that is pretty rare. Give me a blank slate all day for any project.
- bestouff 4y agoI feel you. A blank slate is really a joyful playground for me, but it's so rare nowadays.
- professoretc 4y agoI remember typing in programs from books and magazines. Although this is theoretically no different from copy-paste, I wonder if the slowness of the process gave me time to think about what I was typing. "Why is this bit here? What happens if I leave it out? Could I replace this with something else?" That's something you don't get today, when moving code from one place to another takes a couple of key-presses.