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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

By : Jordan Hudgens
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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

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By: Jordan Hudgens

Overview of this book

This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than 50 insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career. The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice. Coder Skills contains advice for people starting out, or those who are already working in a programming role but want to improve their skills. It includes such subjects as: how to study and understand complex topics, and getting past skill plateaus when learning new languages. Freelancer Skills contains advice for developers working as freelancers or with freelancers. It includes such subjects as: knowing when to fire a client, and tips for taking over legacy applications. Career Skills contains advice for building a successful career as a developer. It includes such subjects as: how to improve your programming techniques, and interview guides and developer salary negotiation strategies.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 53. Is Writing Bad Code Immoral for Developers?

In this chapter I'm going to discuss a slightly odd question: is writing bad code immoral? This leads to the concept of the importance of developing well-written code.

This may seem like a weird question to ask because the mindset of most developers is that code projects are neither moral or immoral, they're simply programming files that perform various functionalities. I would like to think that most developers take pride in their work and therefore want to write code that adheres to best practices. However, given schedule and budget constraints many projects devolve, with the top goal becoming to simply work and being completed as soon as humanly possible.

However, this mindset can lead to issues such as: missing edge cases for features and poorly organized codebases that are difficult to maintain. Regarding the question of is writing bad code immoral?, I heard a great story from one of my Computer Science professors...

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