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When I tend to answer a programming question, I try to give the OP something they can build on rather than a full blown class or function.

I definitely see a lot of people providing full blown implementations that the OP is probably just copying and pasting.

Of course I understand this is fully within the scope of the individual choosing to answer the question.

My question is, should we, as a community, be answering questions with full blown implementations for new users? Sure it's nice, but it seems the chances of new users really learning anything diminishes on full blown code they can hardly even decipher that they might be just copying and pasting.

To be clear based on comments: I do not encourage giving incomplete answers.


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