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I disagree. When you're at the basics of programming, seeing some complete working code can give you the ideas and understanding needed to make your own code.
I learned C++ almost entirely by first watching complete code, read it, understand it, put it away, and then write my own.
Problem with that is, you won't know how to come up with the solution in the first place when you see a new problem, which is usually the hardest part. Not the implementation of an algorithm already given to you (whether in words or in code).