and funnily enough, writing simple code is the hardest part to learn, because you can't measure it until it falls down on you now that I think about it, that w

and funnily enough, writing simple code is the hardest part to learn, because you can't measure it until it falls down on you now that I think about it, that would be a good exercise for programming students. after writing a program that does a certain task, make the student rewrite it to be simpler/easier to understand/maintain. then take a look at the best solutions in the class.