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Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer?

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-to-program dept.

snydeq writes: Most of us gave little thought to the "career" aspect of programming when starting out, but here we are, battle-hardened by hard-learned lessons, slouching our way through decades at the console, wishing perhaps that we had recognized the long road ahead when we started. What advice might we give to our younger self, or to younger selves coming to programming just now? Andrew C. Oliver offers several insights he gave little thought to when first coding: "Back then, I simply loved to code and could have cared less about my 'career' or about playing well with others. I could have saved myself a ton of trouble if I'd just followed a few simple practices." What are yours?

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  1. What to know by amicusNYCL · · Score: 5, Funny

    What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer?

    How to program, I guess.

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  2. Quite simply... by NecroPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    That people who use spaces for indentation are just WRONG. :)

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  3. Re:C++ is not the language you start with by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 5, Funny

    Going by my wife's experience, I can suggest a better way to discourage somebody from learning to code. It's called Java.

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  4. Re:Pick a different job. by slashdice · · Score: 5, Funny

    SF still sucks, depending on which side of the glory hole you sit.

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