I was eager to learn

Way back few years ago when I was still learning programming and techniques... during learning hours, I had a strange feeling that some of my schoolmates were not serious about the their current course. Some of them find it very difficult, some just copy codes and assignments from classmates. It's disappointing sometimes that some of them really transferred to another course or attended to another school or university. It's kind of sad feeling because I thought that it's somehow wasted their money on a course that they were not so serious about it. I do have close friends at school that they also have intention to finish the course and graduate and earn that diploma.

It was funny experience specially at that time as a newbie, I did some cheating but not too broad. I had my own methods, I only copy ideas. I don't like cheating codes during exams but I do copy codes from different sources to study and do some improvements. I realized that being a programmer is not about ego, it is how to do creativity and wise methods on the codes and meet the requirements of the project.

Honestly, there was a time I was able to copy a code/project from a school without knowing the owner(whoever it is). I did not use the code, but I was learning the code and find its mistakes and flaws. At that time I was doing "debugging" without knowing to myself that I was really debugging it. I didn't use the old code, I just recreate my own code but the same concept. From there on, I was able to improve myself to find and make mistakes to make better codes. I can't tell how I did it but it's the idea that counts all along.