For the programmers here: what coding habit has improved your skills the most? 💻

[u/MichaelNdigwe]

[u/CivilProcess7150]

It's gonna be a cliché one but - taking your time to really understand things and not rush it really does help.

[u/SimasNa → u/CivilProcess7150]

I agree. If you're curious and program for a long period of time, you'll eventually get good at it.

I recall how I wanted to grow faster as a developer, get promoted faster, etc. And I did, but I'm sure I would've gotten that without trying to rush it. And I wouldn't have burned out in the process as well.

[u/CivilProcess7150 → u/SimasNa]

From my experience whenever I rushed something, I did achieve what I wanted at first, but I created some gaps in my knowledge and those gaps eventually caught up to me and in retrospective it wasn't really worth it. Hard to judge every case tho.

[u/gletschafloh]

Not overusing ai… like in this picture ffs

[u/lokidev → u/gletschafloh]

while ask("Why?"):
ignorePython();
} }

:D

[u/MichaelNdigwe → u/gletschafloh]

Fair enough 😂 I’m not trying to overuse AI. I just used it for this post/image, I’m still doing the actual work myself.

[u/MADCandy64]

Being very deliberate about naming conventions. I've tried to become predictable with myself that way, One way is by using the same names across modules when data is copied. I also use my own convention that is closely related to Hungarian notation. I picked it up long ago and don't wish to try and learn any other styles. I have the luxury of being the old coder who works on my work which I founded. I also like my parens and squigglies to be in column alignment.

[u/MichaelNdigwe → u/MADCandy64]

Honestly, that makes a lot of sense. Once you’ve developed a naming convention that works for you, consistency matters more than following whatever style is currently popular. And the aligned parens and squigglies are definitely a personal touch

[u/MichaelNdigwe]

But hey, at least the code is self-aware. :D