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What are your best/worst habits as a developer?

Helen Thackray on March 18, 2019

Curious to see if there are any common ones in the community: What are you best or worst work related habits? Why do you do them? Do you think y...
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Quentin Sonrel •

Some of my worst habits are:

  • Not being able to work/concentrate when I'm not motivated
  • Needing caffeine to work efficiently if I'm not 100% interested by the task at hand
  • Wanting/needing to use my tools and my environment to be efficient
  • Listening to music all day when working (kinda bad for my ears and creates isolation)
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tga • • Edited

Always wanted to write my own game engine, text editor, web server, front-end web framework, formatting engine, ...... Ending up with 0 productivity and always writing tools that are not as good as other's (I'm a game maker but havn't made games in half an year)

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Helen Thackray •

So do you think that's because you try to do too many things or does something else get in the way of the productivity?

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Fatima Tariq • • Edited

I am a self educated developer. So I can tell a ton of terrible and beneficial things

  1. I use remarks to investigate, evacuating certain lines of code. I don't utilize them to make the code justifiable. All things considered, if code was hard to compose, it ought to be hard to peruse.
  2. I know the calculations by their complexities and not names. Barely any hours prior, somebody asked me how to parallel pursuit. I needed to Google to discover just that Binary Search is only the O(logn)O(log⁡n) look calculation.
  3. I frequently will in general rethink the wheel. Since I can, and I don't realize that there is a capacity officially made for that. Recently, I made a capacity to turn around the string in C++. Just to tune in from somebody that strrev() exists. 4.The other day, I told a senior I know Python. Hello, I can code in Python effectively. What's more, they inquired as to whether I can give a workshop to learners. I requested that what themes spread and he said 'Till Classes and Objects'. I resembled, What the hellfire!! I can take up Classes in the first place, Java does that. Python can likewise. So we can't connect with what others will get it. 5.Usage of Global Variables. Took me a half year to comprehend that they are pointless basically. I used to have every one of my factors worldwide just to abstain from passing them as contentions. I said It spares Memory. 6.I use PHP in the time of Django. I know Django. I know Flask. Despite everything I use PHP. I adore it. Frequently, self educated developers get dependent on a specific content.

7.I don't will care about will's identity utilizing my code. Utilizing JavaScript, I can popup an entire bundle of ready messages. Or on the other hand perhaps I give yield utilizing the console.log(). I concur this may not be general, however regularly self educated developers tend to not realize how to put yield.

8.It works = It is great. This is great. Takes a very long time to figure it out.

That is by all accounts everything I can review!

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Daniel Med •

I think my worst habit is that i depand a lot on the internet , especially when writing code,I have never written a code from scratch in almost all my projects, each time i copy existed code on the Web and edit it depending on the need
Except when I'm facing a surious task that needs to be resolved by a programming solution

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Helen Thackray •

You say it's your worst habit, do you think you need to change it? Why/not?