Is copying other People's Code Bad
This happens all the time, and it's not bad... Usually.
Here's when it is bad:
1) When you take someone's code and don't modify it in anyway and directly copy some huge block of code without their permission. Ex: don't steal someone else's website and change the name to be your own. That's not cool.
2) If you take someone else's code and have no idea what it's doing. This isn't bad in the sense that you're taking code, it's bad in the sense that you aren't learning anything from it.
Lots of people share code, or copy small bits of code... Why write something if someone else has already put it out there for you to use, that's a waste of time. Just don't infringe on people's copyrights and directly copy some huge amount of code. Let's say you want some cool feature that someone did, and you know you could write that feature in three hours, but they gave you access to their code someway then you could, and probably should, copy their code.
Here's when it is bad:
1) When you take someone's code and don't modify it in anyway and directly copy some huge block of code without their permission. Ex: don't steal someone else's website and change the name to be your own. That's not cool.
2) If you take someone else's code and have no idea what it's doing. This isn't bad in the sense that you're taking code, it's bad in the sense that you aren't learning anything from it.
Lots of people share code, or copy small bits of code... Why write something if someone else has already put it out there for you to use, that's a waste of time. Just don't infringe on people's copyrights and directly copy some huge amount of code. Let's say you want some cool feature that someone did, and you know you could write that feature in three hours, but they gave you access to their code someway then you could, and probably should, copy their code.
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