+1 on what you said. I was a TA in college for intermediate c++ object oriented course for 16 classes approximately over 2 years. (about 500 students). So ma

+1 on what you said. I was a TA in college for intermediate c++ object oriented course for 16 classes approximately over 2 years. (about 500 students). So many basic and core programming practices almost always stick out like a sore thumb to me. I usually graded in a text editor without any IDE support, and towards the end there, got to the point of just glancing through there program I could easily mentally simulate the compile errors and if fixed, the runtime issues/behavior as well. It definitely help make me a much better programmer and developer. Now working in the industry, I still see a lot of things I can't help but wonder "WHY?!" though technically they are often not wrong, but just unnecessarily complex or convoluted.