If you're not making something from scratch in every development assignment, probably, get another job.
The article isn't simply disparaging using existing code, but using an existing approach.
Using an existing approach might mean, say, reading a paper about it and writing your own implementation from scratch, using only the paper's description and pseudo-code as an example.
That goes a long way to keeping you on your toes as a programmer, and can exercise some computer science muscle as well.
The article isn't simply disparaging using existing code, but using an existing approach.
Using an existing approach might mean, say, reading a paper about it and writing your own implementation from scratch, using only the paper's description and pseudo-code as an example.
That goes a long way to keeping you on your toes as a programmer, and can exercise some computer science muscle as well.