What are some things you wish you knew when you started programming?

Re:What are some things you wish you knew when you started p... by NKCSS on Sunday March 19, 2017 @09:59AM (#13907098)

I don't agree with 9.

I tend to want to know how _everything_ works; this let's me reason about anything and it helps a lot when debugging.

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Re:What are some things you wish you knew when you started p... by Bat-fink on Sunday March 19, 2017 @11:10AM (#13907507)

Personally, I've found that getting that just getting a book on the technology as a resource accomplishes two things --

1) Read the first chapter to get a fair understanding of how the technology works (recently getting them for both Spring security and Hibernate search helped emensely) and;

2) A way to sanity check your stackexchange solution you'll inevitably refer to.

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