On becoming worse at coding
Every time I work on computer code I wrote earlier I feel the urge to throw out the old ugly code and re-write it from scratch since I learnt so much since last time. At least that is what I thought until yesterday when I helped a friend take a look at some old code I had written.
I had an epiphany: the less old code I touched, the better. It’s been such a long time since I worked with computer code that even when the code didn’t seem to make any sense any attempt at trying to re-write it better than before would invariably lead to disaster. Letting me near Visual Studio these days should be viewed by the UN as a crime against mankind.
Not surprisingly really, since the only thing I have programmed in the past five years that even resembles code is MySQL and PHP for Fabset.com. And before that, the only programming I did was university courses and hobby programming.
Do I regret not becoming a programmer? No! I would have sucked more than a new-born baby. But I have a huge amount of respect for all you professional coders out there and I do recommend anyone in the tech industry to learn the basics of computer code . Computer code is revolutionary at best and beautiful at worst!