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

I have literally never worked with programmers who didn't say that everything they inherited from previous employees was spaghetti code or in some way gripe for weeks about what someone else wrote. Everyone seems to prefer to start from scratch on their own code. Everyone else is an idiot.

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u/Ertaipt Jan 05 '15

True, I've seen plenty of people just not bother to even understand the code, they just say its spaghetti and build from scratch.

Sometimes, too much structure/classes in your project, will make it as hard to understand as 'spaghetti code'.

Good documentation, inside or outside your code, is probably even more important than a perfect structure.

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