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Discussion on: Things you might want to hear from an experienced developer

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aminmansuri profile image
hidden_dude • Edited

Be obsessive about stomping out bugs from your code.

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Feli (she/her)

I woudln't say obsessive, but I get your point. To be honest, bugfixing become one of my favorite part when it comes to programming :)

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hidden_dude

Yeah what I mean is that most novices write their code, run it once and call it a day..

An experienced developer is a lot more paranoid about that and uses asserts, traces, pre-emptive debugging and unit tests to ensure their code works before calling it a day.

I would often consider it a challenge to be able to submit code that testers could not break. It was very hard to do because we had really good testers.