I’m absolutely convinced that typing stuff in — carefully! — from magazines or books was one of the most productive bits of my early experiments with a computer (BBC in my case). I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this — for example, the “hard way” books seem to by trying to re-create this experience [1]. Spending some time typing code gives it a chance to percolate in a way that quickly glancing at it before “click to run” doesn’t.

[1] https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/intro.html