Comment on: Hey I'm trying to start learning programming but i am having a hell of a time starting. Is there a correct pathway to starting the adventure that is programming?
0 26 Jul 2015 14:22 u/awrk in v/programmingComment on: Optimizing code: Local variables are your friend!
This would be my one piece of advice to aspiring developers: a line of code should do exactly one thing. I realize that terseness is attractive, and vertical screen space is precious, etc. but if you've written code for any time at all you realize that the time you spend looking at it through a debugger is more precious than any other time you spend writing code, so it should shape how you write code.
Is nobody going to recommend K & R?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%26R