programming-regrets

What college/university course(s) you wish you have taken more seriously?

Admittedly back in college I was only interested on the programming courses. Fortunately that includes the "Data Structures and Algorithms" course. Now that I'm studying compilers I wish I had paid more attention on Automata Theory. How about you? Update Compiled replies: Compilers Operating systems Business courses Statistics Disc...

How do you deal with your past programming atrocities?

None of us started off as experts (and most of us still aren't). Sure, we all knew how to write programs in our preferred languages, but writing quality applications and writing syntactically correct programs are two very different things. We work, we learn, we struggle, we keep learning, and eventually we reach that threshold where ot...