Typing in the code from a listing is one way I inadvertently learned to program.
replySame. Over and over again. Every time, learning new things. And then trying to port things from one system to another is how I became a disciplined cross-platform systems software developer. And then, when C was kind of new, I bought a compiler instead of drugs and booze, like my peers at the time. Oh, what a world that has wrought!
reply> Some day, I'll see the last one go.
replyEqually likely: they'll see YOU go. Pape... uhm I mean floppies are patient.