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[OPINION] Is it wrong or should you feel guilty of looking at someone else code

As the title says, is it wrong to look at someone else's code or learn from their code and implement it to your own project?

The thought of looking at someone else's code, learning from it and implementing it into a project made me think that I am not solving something or creating something that I am thinking of making. 

This question has been stuck in my head ever since I started coding which made coding my simple calculator app on and off.
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"Is it wrong to learn to write from reading other people's writing?"

"Is it wrong to do math by looking at other people's math problems?"

"Is it wrong to learn to paint by looking at paintings?"

There's a big difference between using other people's code wholesale versus seeing how something is done on Stack Overflow and then implementing the same concept. This isn't a priori computing, you learn by seeing how things are done. You should still try to understand what you're doing, solve problems your own way (even if you know there's a better way, then yoinking that off SO), and figure out why one solution or method works while another kinda works but not quite. That's the whole job.

Something you're also overlooking is you're using other people's code all the time. Libraries, modules, and boiler plate are someone else's work, that they've put out as, "Go nuts" (or, "Pay me", read your licenses!) and that's not just fine, it's best practices. Reinventing the wheel isn't the job, fixing this problem you have now is the job.

It's a funny grey area as the best programmer is, by far, Stack Overflow, but you can't write software just from looking for a hundred SO answers...