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When you start looking for jobs, only join a company that does TDD and pair programming. Ask about this in interviews. TDD helps you break down tasks and, when you lose focus, you …

Yea, I've only had about 4 years since I got out of school. Trying to be better able to break the task down is part of why I want to do the studying

Well the things I listed in my OP are my concrete ideas for how to approach these working on these things. If you have other concrete suggestions, I would love to hear them. As an …

What I mean is, how do you keep it from catching up with you a week later?

Sure, but at a certain point, you need to learn a method to writing a maintainable codebase. Otherwise you never become capable of building a successful project.

It is something I've wished I could do. In fact, I am considering only working at a company that does pair programming.

Here is something I don't understand: How does one effectively deliver on a project while writing crappy code? Doesn't trying to do that result in the codebase becoming so confusin…

Having been part of a technical organization that was a democracy: no. I'll take a monarchy over 5-hour meetings where nothing is decided and the room hates each other any day.

> failure teaches you which mistakes to avoid next time As a recent grad who has been fired from two jobs, I would be afraid to join a poorly written project because I would worry …