You will find many Gen-X coders who credit exactly this activity with launching their careers. Clive Thompson wrote about this recently (The Strange Pleasures of Retyping Computer Code, Over and Over and Over Again | by Clive Thompson | Dec, 2021 | Debugger). My dad and I used to have a deal: three games to one utility. We’d sit side by side, one person reading out of Compute’s Gazette, the other typing.
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