Bad Programming Practices 101: Become a Better Coder by Learning How (Not) to Program

© Karl Beecher 2018

Karl BeecherBad Programming Practices 101https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3411-2_1

1. Learning to Program

Karl Beecher¹ 

(1)

Berlin, Germany

 

Objectives

In this chapter, you’ll learn:

• How to mess up your approach to learning programming

• Poor ways to choose your tools

Introduction

This chapter starts things off by discussing how to learn programming and gather your tools in preparation for writing code.

Naturally, since you want to be a bad programmer, it tells you to make a mess of these tasks.

Bad Ways to Learn Programming

If you choose programming as your career, you’ll probably never stop learning. Software is a fast-moving field. Radical new tools and advances come along more often than Stephen King books.

This section will show how ...