Timeline for What should every programmer know about programming?
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| Apr 29, 2011 at 13:54 | comment | added | fender1901 | Sometimes for a beginner it is very hard to see why, beyond the obvious, some things are used. I've read many books that show how to do something but leave me wondering why I would. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 18:35 | comment | added | HLGEM | It's easy to learn the steps to do something and often hard to find out when you should use it and more importantly when you could use it but shouldn't. Textbooks are particularly bad at showing the how but not the why (and why not). | |
| Sep 18, 2010 at 0:27 | comment | added | clrod | No, basics like doesn't care about a typo but care about programming issues. | |
| Sep 18, 2010 at 0:25 | history | edited | clrod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 16, 2010 at 11:46 | comment | added | Konerak |
Basics like spelling? Its wrong should be it's wrong, for example.
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| Sep 16, 2010 at 11:23 | comment | added | MAK | +1, so true. Yes, this is something ivory tower types like to say, but it doesn't make it any less true for the rest of us in the trenches. | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 18:31 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Sep 15, 2010 at 7:28 | comment | added | pramodc84 | Yes. jQuery is best example. | |
| Sep 13, 2010 at 17:25 | comment | added | Steven Evers | Yes and no. You sound like every prof I ever had in university... all of whom never made a lick of software in their entire life. Knowledge, without skills is useless in our profession. | |
| Sep 12, 2010 at 22:56 | history | answered | clrod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |