This is how I learned to code. I sat down with the Turbo C book and typed out the examples. Later on (early-mid 90s) I would download code from CompuServe. Inst

This is how I learned to code. I sat down with the Turbo C book and typed out the examples. Later on (early-mid 90s) I would download code from CompuServe. Instead of using it wholesale I would try to recreate it using my own style and naming convention. It lead to a lot of frustrating moments though. I remember sitting there and fuming trying to figure out where a variable came from. (This was when C++ was starting to get popular and variables started popping up everywhere. I was trying to figure out where in the world a counter was being declared in a for loop. Turns out it was being declared in the for loop.) A bonus of this process is that I made a TON of mistakes and was exposed to dozens of programming styles. Because of this I can just skim code and error messages and have a general idea of what to look for.