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As my Pascal programming teacher said in my first year fo college,
as he handed out printed code to us students during a programming session,

"I could have emailed this all to you,
but to really learn it and make it stick, it has to go
through your eyes, into your brain, and out thorugh your fingers to the keyboard".

Examples of code are good, copy and pasting those examples is not advised (unless it is to a word processor that you can print them out), retyping them so that you understand how they work line by line is how you will really learn to program.

Anything that is learned, is used. To see how stuff is done then to not put it into practice, that was observation. Its the ability to repeat what was shown to you, and to even make it better.