Cargo-culting

What is Cargo-culting?

The act of copy and pasting code from a source (book, website, CD_ROM etc) into code you are writing, without first understanding what it does.

"Jane is always cargo-culting javascript from dodgy progamming websites."

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Eeebie Weebie

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Olaves

1. Students of St Olaves school in Orpington start out as tiny 4 foot geeks whose bags are bigger than they are, and often require the assi..

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