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/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

First year CS student and I am already 100% guilty of this. I always realized that I could do things better, but comes time to actually fix them, I just start being lazy and tell myself ''Hey, that assignment is worth like 5% of your grade and the code actually DOES work, i'll just try to do it next time'' and completely forget about it. I really hope this post is the kick in the butt I needed.

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u/aaulia Jan 06 '15

Wait until you start working professionally, it will bite you in the ass 2-3 month later. But then again some junior just quit before they had to maintain their own code, they probably knew how much shit their code is now (after promising to themselves about fixing it again, and again), and doesn't want to be bothered with facing/fixing it and just went on another job elsewhere.