If you produce code that works with few or no bugs and is easy for you and your colleagues to maintain and fix, then you're good at programming. Being a good c

If you produce code that works with few or no bugs and is easy for you and your colleagues to maintain and fix, then you're good at programming. Being a good coder is different from being a rock star coder. In fact, rock star coders can be terrible coders and yet have large followings. Most rock star coders became popular through blogging, tweeting, hacking and/or writing trivial software modules that are widely used. Coders who work on difficult problems don't usually become rock stars.