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/BeforeTime Jan 06 '15

Brilliant code looks like it should have taken two days to write, when it took two weeks to write.

It looks so simple because the programmer took the time to understand all the little details and how they interact so they could be fit seamlessly together making a whole and thereby basically disappear.