Bad habits

Tim-Ole Sanmann — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:59:44 +0000

Hello everyone,

today I was thinking about bad habits while writing code for a project. After a while I realized that my functions are way to long with to much different actions inside. That made me thinking about my schooltime. I remember, when I was at school, there was one thing, beside being lazy, where I earned critic for very often. It was, that I write to long sentences with to much information. My teachers and also my parents told me that pretty often. Even when I left school and applied for my first job as a programmer, my parents and my friends read the application and told me: "Make shorter sentences! You can write everything what you want, but not everything in one sentence."

I realised that there seems to be a connection between writing too long sentences and too long functions. It's the bad habit to try to put all my information into one context which is logical to me. But this is often exhausting for others.

It's interesting to find a connection between behaviors through a habit.
What about you? Do you have any habits in some areas which you can reflect on the way you write code?

Cheers, Tim

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Bad habits