Programming principles that work in real life - Dont be emotionally attached to your code
Summary
- Likely your code will be depracated on rewritten enentually. Don't be emotionally attached to it.
Details
- Don't be afraid to delete it all and start over if you think of a better way of doing it.
- Incorporate feedback without into your code. Your code is not perfect, and neither are you.
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