Re:Ask HN: Why am I such a bad programmer?
by sadjuniordev on Sunday October 23, 2016 @02:36PM
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Hi.
Thank you. I have read the wikipedia entry but I have to say that DRY seems obvious to me. Is this really a thing? Am i missing something? I just try to write code that is easy to read. And I try to reuse code as often as it makes sense.
That list of books looks good by the way. Thank you
There have been some long threads here about other people's evolution as programmers and what kinds of things they felt helped them improve. I don't have one in mind right now, but maybe you could find one.
You could also try reading a couple of software engineering books that talk about some of these concepts. Wikipedia mentions The Pragmatic Programmer, and there's also Code Complete and others. (I haven't read either of those.)
Here's a list of the best "software engineering" books, although the focus of these is incredibly varied and some probably wouldn't be relevant to you.
http://noop.nl/2008/06/top-100-best-software-engineering-boo...