Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat

Re:Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat by vikp on Monday December 29, 2014 @03:42PM (#8811658)

I thought this way before, and looked down on what I had made, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that its more about how well the approach works and what it teaches you than about the technical details. I definitely wouldn't code it the same way today, but it worked well and taught me a lot. I wouldn't stop anyone who's in a similar position from doing the same.

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Re:Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat by bluedino on Monday December 29, 2014 @04:05PM (#8811764)

The worst that could have happened was that you talked yourself out of automating it because there wasn't an 'easy way'

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Re:Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat by vxNsr on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @10:52AM (#8819782)

I also have to wonder if you even could have used a api-approach, especially for that second db which was it's own program and was likely monkeyed together by interns over a summer.

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