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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:19 pm
by asawyer13
Yes I live to reinvent the wheel. lol
I personally can use some elses tools to save time, and still create something that has my touch.
Alan
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:27 pm
by srod
In terms of learning the ins and outs of Purebasic etc. then there are tons and tons of code snippets to be had in these forums and on PureArea.net, and this is probably the best way of learning. You also of course get a feel for lots of different programming styles when looking at snippets from many different developers.
Taking a great big application written by a single person will lock you in, to some extent, to just that one person's way of doing things, and it may not necessarily be the 'best' way by any means.
No. I reckon you're better off building from the ground up. By all means incorporate routines from other developers where appropriate, but it's important that you keep in control of the application at all times. In my case, if I take some code posted on these forums, then I spend as much time as is required to fully understand that code before I will make use of it in any program of mine. I feel I owe it to the original developer of the said piece of code etc.
