Just to add a little breadth to this discussion, I'll answer from the perspective of someone who has programming only as a peripheral work area.

My programming process is forced and chaotic. I have little time to concentrate on any particular project but yet have several to work on simultaneously. I often start with a half-baked idea, manage to get part way through and then get pulled back into my "normal" work so far that I nearly forget where I was going with the program. The worst I've done is to get a "brilliant" idea, write the code, think of a good name and find that it clashes with another program ... which does about the same thing ... written by me several years earlier. OK, I've only done that a few times but even once is too much.

Just for the record, despite the bad habits, I'm a reasonably skilled programmer (for a non-professional) but certainly not great. I can complete my projects without serious bugs and some of my DB-backed web applications have been in use for several years (albeit only on an intranet). Of course, this isn't to brag (I'm not that foolish) but just to express that even bad habits can produce usable good (but with much more effort).

As the crazies or alcoholics can tell you, admitting the problem is half the battle ... or so I hope since I don't really know if I'll ever manage to find the time and will-power to make up the second half. ;-)

In reply to Re: How do you code? by igelkott
in thread How do you code? by bastard

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