Can someone tell me the principal aim of making public our codes?

Question

is it to get up votes,or making fame,or for coding sake?

Answer 1

I post my code public so people can learn from it. Every once in a while, I get a improvement suggestion that will improve it. For beginners, this can be super useful to get suggestions. xp and up votes are not important. Learning to code better is what matters.

Answer 2

Here or in general?

People post it here to practice, show their work off to their peers and so others can learn from their code here. As well, some do it for the badges/exp points.

In general, you make things open source for various reasoning. It allows others to contribute to the code, improve upon the code, learn from the code, share the code, etc...

Answer 3

I think Fata1 Err0r pretty much covered it.

Answer 4

Like many others on this thread have already been kind enough to mention,
we make our codes public to:
* educate,
* influence mindsets,
* unleash creativity,
* create a motivational spark for beginners in the field,
* help others out on something that they'd themselves missed to make the code now more readable, comprehensive and compressed.

Answer 5

I was a professional. I retired 2 years ago, after 43 year in the field (mostly C++.) You are free to copy and change anyone's code. However, you must maintain the original owner's name and/or the original website link.

Answer 6

it means that your are professional programmers

Answer 7

Same as John Wells I do it for help most of the time, because if it wasn’t for help with my first few codes, I wouldn’t have codes anything like my current ones. They would never improve. (I also like to show off a bit. Not for XP, but it feels good. 😉) 😂

Answer 8

so I can then learn from your codes! !

Answer 9

so pretty ends

Answer 10

you are rigth

Answer 11

👍👍

Answer 12

really!