If I recall correctly William Shakespeare did a ton of cutting and
pasting. And he was not alone. My Fair Lady, one of the most
successful Broadway shows ever, contains whole sections from Shaw's
play.
We learn by imitation. I am not suggesting that once you cut and
paste you call it quits, but it is the only place to begin.
John
On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote:
> John Gage schrieb:
>
>> On reflection, I think what is needed is a handbook that features
>> cut and paste code to do the things with Postgres that people do
>> today with MySQL.
>
> Everyone of my trainees want such thing - for databases, for other
> programming-languages etc. It's the worst thing you can give them.
> The< will copy, they will paste and they will understand nothing.
> Learning is the way to understanding, not copying.
>
> Greetings,
> Torsten
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