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Re: Programming Innocence

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Can you elaborate on this a little? Let me put it this way... If you gave me a page of your code and asked for feedback, I would return it with 50 red marks on it. If you gave it to me a second time, there would still be 50 red marks, but most of them would have you changing it back to the way it was in the first place . The point is that any programmer can give endless feedback to any other programmer based on a sam…

Having others look at my code has never delivered much value. Maybe not much value for you, but after enjoying your many insightful comments on this site, I suspect that I would learn a lot by looking at your code. :-)

  var TwoBirdsWithOneStone="Thank you, tjr!";

Re: Programming Innocence

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Having others look at my code has never delivered much value. Maybe not much value for you, but after enjoying your many insightful comments on this site, I suspect that I would learn a lot by looking at your code. :-)

EDIT: (Ignore this. It's wrong, and I should have been more polite anyway. I'm leaving it to teach myself a lesson about being hasty...) If you understood his point, you wouldn't say that. Not that I agree with Ed on this, 95% of my code is published. But still.

He himself says that he learns by looking at others' code. Perhaps I don't understand his point.

Re: Programming Innocence

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EDIT: (Ignore this. It's wrong, and I should have been more polite anyway. I'm leaving it to teach myself a lesson about being hasty...) If you understood his point, you wouldn't say that. Not that I agree with Ed on this, 95% of my code is published. But still.

He himself says that he learns by looking at others' code. Perhaps I don't understand his point.

... or perhaps I read it too quickly.

Which going back over it, seems to be the case. My bad!

Re: Programming Innocence

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I think if you read a lot of programming forums, it's easy to confuse the fact that there are lots of people with highly specialized knowledge with the idea that everybody else knows more about everything than you do.

Yes, and this is a great force in my betterment. I'll see 4 different people talk about 4 completely different advanced techniques they use, and each of them master them so much that they talk about their feats like it's not really hard at all.

So eventually I tend to forget the context of the whole thing and come to think: "Hey, I can master these 4 advanced techniques myself, after all they're not really hard at all". And I eventually succeed ;P

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