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What To Do Right As a New Programmer?
globeadue writes "My company just tagged me for full time App Dev — I've essentially never coded for money, but the last 3 years of support desk gives me the business sense to know the environment I'll be coding for. Now my company will be training me, so I think the technical side of things will be covered, what I'm looking for is best practices, habits I should/shouldn't develop, etc as I take on my new craft."
Along with the ? : ternary opp.
Code that is hard to read means job security.
The IOCCC is a good place to learn style.
Sql Injection is a good thing. You don't need to escape user data before send it to the DB, users never do anything bad.
(Go ahead and mod me troll, I can take the hit. Note that this is actually a list of things NOT to do. Except goto is sometimes useful, for breaking out of a few layers of loops/blocks.)
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Get out, now, for the love of God, while you still can.
Don't read Slashdot at work. :)
yeah, wheels suck. Instead create a circle that can be attached to a vehicle in such a manner that it allows the circle to roll while the vehicle moves in a straight line. And don't forget to give it descriptive name like
circleForVehicleToMoveBetterThanDraggingWouldNormallyAllow
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Tip: Get together with your coworkers after work -- hit a bar on Thursday/Friday night, loosen up, relax, talk shit about your managers, etc. Find out what people do outside of work. Ask the girls if they shave their pussy, the guys if they shave their balls. If you're in the bathroom taking a piss together, compliment them on their cock. Little things like that make the work environment easier and the coding more fun.
1. Read The Daily WTF. 2. Don't do that.
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Don't forget:
* Lots of GOTOs
* Delete those annoying REM statements
* Use weird, arcane variable names like 'ORGO' and 'FTOOMSH'
Good Luck!
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
like ? leave_alone : ;
There, fixed it for you.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
For the complete list see how to write unmaintainable code at:
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html
Wouldn't have been the Millennium would it? :-)
Learn C (need to understand the computer memory model), and that's it. All the rest is bullsh... and fashionable stuff.
Please try to keep up with technology trends. Conditional COMEFROM is now called 'Aspect Oriented Programming.'
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