Tips For a New Coder From a New Coder

70% comedic images meant to entertain new coders, with a few text slides tucked in to keep me looking legit

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1. Tips For a New Coder From a New Coder
2. Clean Code four things to remember about writing good, clean code
4. 1. somebody after you will have to read it (it will probably be you)
6. what does this mean?
7. make it readable (duh)
8. ask yourself, can you figure out what the code does? could a stranger (who knows programming)?
10. 2. KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid
11. does your code get the job done?
12. efficiently, or is it a hot mess?
14. 3. developers are lazy
15. be less lazy now (so you can be more lazy later)
16. if the code is readable and simple NOW, it’ll be that much LESS work to modify it later (it WILL have to be modified later. why do you think somebody else had to read it?)
18. velociraptors will attack you if you use bad coding practices, trufax
19. tech debt: do you have it?
20. 4. be expressive … and use camelCase
21. when naming ANYTHING in your code, be boring it’s tempting to start declaring values and methods in creative ways, but when you’re trying to understand your code, you’ll have more luck with func measureTravelDistance than func makeTheKesselRun…
22. …unless you’re calculating var kesselRun = 11 if kesselRun <= 12 { print("You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs") } else { print("parsecs are a measurement of distance not time") } in which case, shine on
23. when do these rules apply? A) Always B) Never C) In certain cases D) Rules never apply, life is meaningless, nihilism is the answer
25. when in doubt, follow the leader
26. unless they’re this guy. don’t be this guy
27. table views and boilerplate code
28. “Boilerplate is any text that is or can be reused in new contexts or applications without being greatly changed from the original”
30. .h file
31. .m file
32. the ideal way to learn (beyond “just do it”, which after a point is just not helpful, and there is no shame in admitting that)