Agreed. If one wants to stop oneself copy-pasting, one should have a little willpower.
If one wants to stop someone else copy-pasting, like for a student's test in a school environment, there might be some utility here — though I would say a system-wide utility might be more useful.
I’ll defend this practice. It’s the only way of knowing for sure that you’re transmitting exactly the information you intend to send. Even copy/paste often picks up other stuff you don’t intend.
> You must type each of these exercises in, manually. If you copy and paste, you might as well not even do them. The point of these exercises is to train your hands, your brain, and your mind in how to read, write, and see code. If you copy-paste, you are cheating yourself out of the effectiveness of the lessons.
Come on. Appending a URL to the copied text doesn't break anyone's experience. It's a very tiny inconvenience at best.
As for them pre-judging any copy and paste as inherently unfair, most people on the Internet copy and steal things without giving credit. Appending a URL to a chunk of copied text is a way of nudging them to cite the material. As for fair-use folks, I see it as helpful. I always cite material I copy from elsewhere manually, but now the script does it for me. In either case, it's a win.
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