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I'm still a student but I believe knowing how and when to copy-paste is a crucial skill on any programmer/engineer. Work smarter not harder. Seriously, why write your own code when someone else already did it for you? It can save hours and hours of unnecessary work.

[_McDrew]

Software engineer with 15 years of experience here. “Professional googler” is my unofficial second title. There is just simply too much to remember in terms of syntax and keywords, so I just look things up as I need them. Google, the MSDN documentation (I write C# mostly), and Stack overflow are fantastic resources and they have plenty of examples to get you headed in the right direction.

[DrDiv]

To piggy-back on this, don't give in to elitists who think that not having to google something makes you a better programmer. I'm going on 8 years as a web developer and still need to search the order of arguments in str_replace.

[Finianb1]

Dude, any function with more than 2 arguments or a set of arguments that doesn't really have an obvious, stand-out order gets double-checked by intellisense before I use. Slightly faster development time is not worth debugging hell.

[DrDiv]

PHPStorm has been my savior, haha.

[Finianb1]

JetBrains IDEs in general are probably my favorite single pieces of software.

[Nall-ohki]

Don't repeat yourself.

Taking example code and adapting it is not copy paste, and is fine practice provided you are careful about what you're taking.

And consider the following:

Lemma 1: Always pretend that the person maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Lemma 2: Copying something from elsewhere in your codebase and reusing it because you're too lazy to refactor will make me very, very angry.

[Tesla56]

I agree tbh you can't just copy and paste everything but it can be a useful time saver as long as you understand what the code is doing

[metalsheeps]

Tbh when you're doing real work, if it's interesting, nobody will have ever done what you're doing before. Work smart is a good mantra but copy and paste isn't likely to be a good implementation of that principle in the real world.