The first time I was told, "Make it work, make it right, make it fast," was in my first programming course. However, it was in passing by another professor subs

The first time I was told, "Make it work, make it right, make it fast," was in my first programming course. However, it was in passing by another professor substituting. After the first programming course, we had OOP Design. It's how to better structure OOP software, abstractions and design patterns. This was our, "This is how good programmers do it." That same professor who had subbed then beat it into our heads - in our senior level programming languages course - that making the damn thing work takes priority over all. I guess better late than never.