I am confused as to whether it is acceptable to use code produced by other people for something that is related to me and my creations. Do i have to resort to coding my portfolio website with pure css and js to demonstrate my credibility and experience as a candidate employee? Does the ideology of 'using other people's tools to create a better product' apply here in this context, or would it be considered plagiarism? Is there some sort of gradient as to how much i should use third party tools for my website for it be ethically appropriate, if it all?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 35 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Absolutely fine.

Could you imagine if every developer recreated the wheel for every project?

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Oh boy, do I have some C++ codebases I wish I could show you.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments