why PEOPLE copy OTHER CODES ?

Question

Why soo Many peoples COPY OTHER PEOPLE CODES ?

Answer 1

when children learn by copying great start

Answer 2

I feel like it's good to thoroughly understand what you are copying. Read it first to understand the mechanics so you can properly implement it, but IMO there is nothing wrong with using snippets and bits of code people have spent hours creating. Do you think applications today have ALL been written from scratch? I gaurauntee you we would be WAY behind if that were the case.

Answer 3

copy is a way to learn

Answer 4

becouse :)

Answer 5

@feliciano Copying is not a way to learn. Sometimes I will take someone's code and put it in the code playground to mess around with it to understand what it is doing, but I won't just take someone's code and post it. Often I use people's codes for ideas to understand how to do something.

Answer 6

They think it's easy to copy than to bothering to think new. So they copy.
If anyone of us need to copy please cite the sources.... Don't mind.

Answer 7

@Wolfenrahd Exactly and perfectly stated.

Answer 8

The person who creates should take it in a positive way to the person who copies. Because if you create something it is genuinely yours and if sm1 copies tat, it just means tat he likes it. Steve Jobs said "Good artists copy;Great artists steal". If u take smthng and make it your own, then its your design and tat is the dividing line between copying and stealing.

Answer 9

for some reasons its not just what they think is only copy but they could think that as an idea for their inspiration

Answer 10

I've witnessed first hand, that copying (at least while first learning) creates bad habits as a programmer. As a programmer, you should be able to write code to solve your problems, and improve on solutions. Once you start to copy and paste, it becomes harder to achieve this. But as long as you understand the code, and can change it to fit with the code you already established, I suppose it's alright, as long as they are snippets.

Answer 11

except if someone is bad habit

Answer 12

No, copy is not a way to learn. Read books and Write yourself codes is a way to learn.

Answer 13

I hate developers ctrl+c and ctrl+v. Because it's not learner

Answer 14

Because we're all learners

Answer 15

Copying can be seen as a short term benefit. As you develop n practice more complex code, problems start arising!

Answer 16

Reusability