Discussion on: What little things make you happy while coding?

[Pang Yan Han]

• Refactoring code to make it look good
• When new code works on the first try and passes all the tests
• Putting into practice knowledge that I've recently acquired
• When I finally "get" something that I've been using but don't understand in depth
• Reading good code written by others and getting mindblown by what I've learnt from them

[david]

+1 for the last one. I've been working as a junior/front end dev on a freelance project with a C#/asp.net developer who has 12 years of experience. Reading his code and studying it until I understood how all the functions worked was a complete game changer!!