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I wish I had learned about testing earlier. The idea of testing code was never covered in any of the introductory books I read. I learned the basics of C, Fortran, and Pascal while doing a physics undergrad in the 90's, then I learned Java and Python in the 00's on my own from books and websites. None of the introductory books I read introduced the concept of testing. It wasn't until I started reading programming blo…
Getting excited and wanting to build something with my new found knowledge. Doing this after learning a few new things really slowed down my learning. I wish I waited to learn a lot more before starting a project, it would have been more efficient, I'd know how to work smarter, and I'd have been able to make coolet projects.
Between working smarter and working (and learning) with more motivation, working smarter may not be the clear winner...
I wish I had learned about testing earlier. The idea of testing code was never covered in any of the introductory books I read. I learned the basics of C, Fortran, and Pascal while doing a physics undergrad in the 90's, then I learned Java and Python in the 00's on my own from books and websites. None of the introductory books I read introduced the concept of testing. It wasn't until I started reading programming blo…
I'm interested in your Python book. What is the title?
Wish I had taken better care of my eyes.
I should have learnt more of following (a) memory management, (b) process memory layout, (c) good coding practices (d) read up code from other projects. There are really brilliant programmers out there churning out awesome code and that itself is a great teacher. (e) Teaching whatever I learn. Teaching (especially writing it down on paper/webpage) brought clarity to me.
Not doing all of the above early in my career is a regret I have now.
My biggest regret about learning programming is that I tend to approach things in the real world from an engineering perspective, which isn't always best for a given situation. I try to avoid it and over time I've done a better job of approaching things dynamically.