This worked wonders for me as a kid, learning computer programming. There was so much knowledge to be gained by typing in 1000’s of lines of other peoples code, published in magazines.
I think I probably learned so much more in between the lines during that period, than if I’d just read the user manuals.
And the same is true even today - spending a few hours code-reading some wonderful open source project will enlighten you immensely.
Code is a social construct - just like music. It prospers in the space between minds, in my opinion.
> If you type out somebody's work, you learn a lot about it. Amazingly it's like music. And from typing out parts of Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - these were writers that were very big in my life and the lives of the people around me - so yea I wanted to learn from the best I guess.
