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Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”

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Tuxman:
That actually makes me rather sad. But then again, it mirrors this Java-driven world where your IDE magically creates half of your code for you. You don't have to understand what it actually does. Java "developers" around me called that an "advantage".

MilesAhead:
If you tell people there was a time when computer books had no media other than the printed pages to copy code from they look at you as if you are demented.  It is almost as if you claim there was a time before TV existed.  We all know that is nothing but mythology.  Even The Labors of Hercules must have starred Steve Reeves.  :)

wraith808:
I was wondering, when a new appointee in our office developing a .Net project, was searching StackOverflow and copy - pasting codes in the project. Since he was not under me, I just wondered how he is going to get all codes for the project of our clients.  :huh:

As expected all codes were working except the product. The client ran away.

Now I see this is how all new programmers are learning to code, copy - paste.

Why there was no help for us when we were working hard to read a text file correctly, which had some lower ASCII characters in it.

-anandcoral (July 21, 2015, 02:41 AM)
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OCP (Object Copy and Paste) has always been a problem, but it's becoming endemic.  You should *know* how any code works before you put it in your project.  And you should test it before you do so also.  Nothing wrong with not reinventing the wheel or getting outside help, but to take it at face value will bite you one day.

anandcoral:
Yes, we have copied codes from "Learn in n days.." books and also have got some in accompanied CDs. But those were always taken , and were, sample codes.

Now in StackOverflow and other website they give solution to "How to I send mail in .Net ?" and these fellows think that they have got the gold mine. Just copy them and you can send the mails.

There is no understanding of the working of the copied code, forget about doing some testing on it.

MilesAhead:
Yes, we have copied codes from "Learn in n days.." books and also have got some in accompanied CDs. But those were always taken , and were, sample codes.

-anandcoral (July 21, 2015, 11:06 AM)
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At least for me, being not a great typist, there was something about having to type the code in that helped me understand it.  Mainly due to the fact I got so many typos I had to figure out the code to get it right.  Same thing when I did some CORBA test programs.  I essentially copied the test program, but I changed the names of objects and did not paste the code so that I had to struggle through getting the object methods to compile and run.  I guess what I am saying is, if you type it in you at least have to read it.

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