Do you write your own codes, or do you try to write the codes someone else gave you?

Question: Do you write your own codes, or do you try to write the codes someone else gave you?
- Keywords:
  code,
  language,
  programming
Asked by LunarWarrior325 to Kate on 13 Dec 2015.
- Kate Wright answered on 13 Dec 2015:
  
  I’m not 100% sure what you mean by writing codes someone else gives you…
  I rarely write a whole new piece of code from scratch (though sometimes I do), more often I take a piece of code someone else has written previously and change it to do more things or add new functions.

Question: Do you write your own codes, or do you try to write the codes someone else gave you?