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The lack of experience of programmers

Beck Moulton
3 min readJun 27, 2023

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In the workplace, we need to know what is the performance of inexperience, so that we can not make the same mistakes in our career.

#1 The code is confusing

Inexperienced developers cannot write beautiful code, and the code they write will be messy and distributed across various parts of the code base.

When you try to read this kind of code, you feel like you are in a maze. You gradually forget where you started, what to look for, and what the code accomplishes.

Experienced developers know how to design code. Unless the function to be developed is obvious, you first need to write your understanding of the requirements on paper and draw a flowchart (simplified version of the specification requirements specification) to have a complete idea of the code in your head. Don’t start writing code unless you have thoroughly figured out how to modify it.

If you don’t follow the above rules, it will be very painful when you review the code you have completed. If you need to fix problems or add features in the future, it will also become very tricky.

What you can do:

  • Before writing code, have a clear understanding of the function you want to implement. In order to clearly understand the requirements, you need to ask as many…

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Beck Moulton
Beck Moulton

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