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What To Do Right As a New Programmer?

Posted by timothy on from the give-your-coworkers-good-nerf-guns dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Goto is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Both the ternary op and goto have their uses. To say they are bad in every case shows your n00b status. Maybe spend a little more time studying your classes instead of playing video games.

  2. Re:Go with the flow by calmofthestorm · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or get you fired for sexual harassment.

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  3. Re:Go with the flow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As someone who started programming about 30 yrs ago, and has written programs in more languages than you could probably count, I say: go back to you frickin' help desk. I don't want to fix your shit. Oh, and the script you wrote that your mommy proudly displays on her refrigerator, isn't what I would call real programming.