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I have also been programming for over 30 years. I agree with you when the problem is small but all the rules change when it is bigger. If you are not up to it t

• keithnz 10y ago
  even at scale, it's the same thing, even more so. just remember I'm not saying caring vs coding skills.... I'm saying caring from when you are noob through to your entire growth as a programmer will define you as a good programmer, as opposed to an average one. An average one will also adopt coding skills and be... ok, average programmers will be inspired by good programmers and want to emulate them, "wow! that person did some awesome stuff with React!, lets do React! it is all things awesome!", but then you find while it's certainly got some things you appreciate, you end up with average React code because you adopted the the framework and not the mindset. My observation is good programmers start... and continue with a mindset. "It works" is never quite the goal, it needs this quality of being "good", good code, good design, good Ux, which we won't try and define, but more importantly is driven by caring about the outcome. I guess that's more my reflection on my observations, what I have observed is having taken on people out of uni ( or crossed into programming from math / science / engineering ), and seen them develop over the years I have this sense of "good programmer" from the beginning, it's not once they reach some level of coding ability. They always do good things with their current capabilities. They then carry on and improve those capabilities and do even more good things.