I’m a recovering social scientist (BA in Econ) who got a lucky break after college. I’ve been a practicing developer for 25 years in private industry and the public sector.
I can’t emphasize the notion of understanding what you are copying enough. A colleague’s research group just had a paper accepted for publication that shows that a significant percentage of non-trivial code samples on coding sites including StackOverflow have security issues. We all do it, but we just have to be aware of what we are copying.
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I can’t emphasize the notion of understanding what you are copying enough. A colleague’s research group just had a paper accepted for publication that shows that a significant percentage of non-trivial code samples on coding sites including StackOverflow have security issues. We all do it, but we just have to be aware of what we are copying.