What Makes Bad Programmers Different?

摘要

There are only two fundamental ways of improving in life: avoiding the bad and aspiring to the good. As children, we learn how to function in precisely this sequence. First, we make mistakes and suffer the penalties, then we learn to build goals toward which we strive. It's expected that as that striving becomes a driving focus, the errors will fall away by themselves, and we won't have to repeatedly make silly or costly errors.