Hi,
I have a question. In this page https://www.freecodecamp.org/how-nonprofit-projects-work FCC team says “While you do this, our team will code review each of your code portfolios to ensure that all user stories have been completed, and that there are no signs of academic dishonesty.”
I’m trying to do my first tribute page, but i’m looking from codepen example. I’ve copied some of those codes, is this cheating or academic dishonesty? I can’t write a web page from scratch. I don’t know too many coding.
Thank you.
Thanks for the answer. So i can look at the codepen but my projects need to be my own code. I got it 
I’ll try my best ^^
For learning purposes, you are advised not to look at the code behind the projects. The idea is to take what you have learned through working on the challenges before the projects and apply what you have learned to try to achieve what is required in the User Stories. In my experience, until you learn the basics, looking at the code does not help you to learn how to code. Being able to write the code without looking at FCCs complete solution will help you learn in the long run. Anyone can copy/paste the FCC code and “modify” it to the point that it looks different. If you expect to pass an interview when all you have ever done is copy/paste solutions from some other source and “tweaked” them, the interviewer will quickly be able to know you don’t understand why code is working a specific way. These are just my opinions based on how I have learned to code over the past 16 years.
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