I too felt the same and said it here: http://www.codinggarage.com/2012/07/how-to-be-better-programmer-instantly.html http://www.codinggarage.com/2012/07/how-to-

I too felt the same and said it here: http://www.codinggarage.com/2012/07/how-to-be-better-programmer-instantly.html http://www.codinggarage.com/2012/07/how-to-be-better-program... "The right approach is to get your hands dirty, get inside the core of the code and understand it, thus implement it well. We should also try to remember the code as much as we can at the first place so if we face a similar problem later, we can solve it in no time. Also I would suggest not to copy paste it and try to type it on your own (if the code consists of a few lines), this approach will definitely help you to remember it for later use. The coding ninjas, the coding beasts, the rock start programmers, whatever you call them, all the great programmers definitely have one thing in common and that is they are like living library of the programming language and framework they use. They spend maximum time in getting things done (not finding the solutions to the problems they have already worked on before)."