Re: Helping newbie coders, how much effort to put?

From: claywar (claywar@CETLink.Net)
Date: 02/18/97


> My advice to newbies is to leave the snippets and contributed code alone
> if they want to learn coding.  You may learn a little installing someone
> else's code, but I think the best way to learn is to start simple and work
> your way up, with your own code.
> 
<snip>

Hmm, I do admit that the snippets seem to be used everywhere, and it lacks
originality, but what is the point in re-inventing the wheel?  Sure you
learn more indepth C coding styles, but most call it a waste of time =).
I learned by taking the snippets and base code and just tinkering with it.
Such things as spells, skills, and specprocs are great to learn off of.

cw!

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