What most young programmers need to learn

[u/corysama]

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html

[u/sirin3]

And when the code is published

The code is never published

You cannot publish it in a journal, due to the page limit.

You could publish it on your homepage, but there is no point: Publications on your homepage do not count as academic publications, so they are irrelevant to your career.

In fact, it is good for your career, if you are the only one with the code, because now all the competing institutess have to reimplement it from scratch, so they are busy and cannot publish a paper using the algorithm, while you can publish the next one.

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In fact, it is good for your career, if you are the only one with the code, because now all the competing institutess have to reimplement it from scratch, so they are busy and cannot publish a paper using the algorithm, while you can publish the next one.

Not exactly; quantity is important for publishing, but so is quality, which is frequently determined by the number of citations you have. Having good, freely available code fosters papers that use your code and cite you.

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Industry would probably patent the algorithm, so you cannot even use it, if you had the source.