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Well, I suppose. Yui, I don't doubt you can pick up C from simply looking at code, although I suspect you had some background in programming. However, I dont think somebody can learn object oriented programming or advanced coding concepts (queues pointers notation) by simply looking at code. Some of this needs to be learned by sitting down and looking at a book, unless you're Ken Perlin.
Tutorials can be dumb though. For instance, "Hello World!" In my college-level java class, we didnt make any stupid applet to begin the course. The first thing we did was open up the source of a simple java applet the instructor made and the assignment was "see what you can do with it". If worked pretty well, it saturated our brains, you might say, and got us used to the language, and told many of the students that Java isnt really that complex.
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