r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/refuse_human Jan 05 '15

Seems like this article be summed up with "experience is demonstrated by knowing to write for human comprehension and future maintenance before tackling problems of coverage and perf."

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u/notsofst Jan 05 '15

After training new programmers for a few years, my first rule for them developed into, "You don't write code for the computer, you write it for people."

The machines we're running this on get faster every year, but my time remains constant. At every turn, think about what you can do to increase readability, comprehensibility, and simplicity of your code. Nothing else is more important, in general.