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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by mannykannot on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:41PM (#20064788)
> You can lie to yourself in writing but not in code.

You can certainly fool yourself in code, and think you have the solution, or part of it, when, in fact, you do not. If this was not the case, prototyping would be meaningless, as you could only write correct solutions.

I would advise abhishekjha to try thinking one or two steps ahead before starting to write the corresponding code, and to pay particular attention to where it does not work out as expected, because without practice, one is unlikely to advance beyond trial-and-error programming.

Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by allenu on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:59PM (#20064907)
This is a good point. Some of the techniques that I employ today (prototyping at a large scale) are ones that I can employ simply because I have experience and can see ahead to what potential problems there are in various designs. These things aren't obvious to a junior developer and letting them get too far with a prototype can be dangerous.