Yepp, more things I wish I'd known when I started, 8th edition.

You can find the first article in the series here.

And the previous article here

Programming is not about memorizing, it's about understanding

When I started programming I felt very frustrated when I tried to write simple things

Yepp, more things I wish I'd known when I started, 7th edition.

You can find the first article in the series here.

And the previous article here

Test your code

Writing tests is one of those things that you appreciate more as you gain experience.

In the beginning, it's hard

Yepp, more things I wish I'd known when I started, 6th edition.

You can find the first article in the series here.

And the previous article here

Don't try to predict the future

We suck at predicting the future.

Every time you make an architectural/design decision, you close options

Yepp, more things I wish I'd known when I started, 5th edition.

You can find the first article in the series here.

And the previous article here

You read code more often than you write it. Optimize for reading

Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a

Yepp, more things I wish I'd known when I started, 4th edition.

You can find the first article in the series here.

And the previous article here

Love maintenance work or at least learn to appreciate it

Very few things are more despised by programmers than doing maintenance work and