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You get better at not making them - but much more importantly, you get better at realizing what mistakes you're likely to make, so when you make them and someth
by Vivtek 16y ago
You get better at not making them - but much more importantly, you get better at realizing what mistakes you're likely to make, so when you make them and something doesn't work as expected, you find and fix the small mistakes very quickly.
You also generally get better at testing and at diagnosis.
It does get better.
- ams6110 16y agoYeah you get better. It's like learning to ice skate, maybe... you fall a lot and get a lot of bruises at first but eventually it gets to the point where you don't think about it. I learned to program before IDEs and I still use Emacs as my primary editor for almost everything. I find the Visual Studio "IntelliSense" type behaviors in most IDEs annoying in the extreme. But I can see how if that's what you started with, you'd come to find it useful.
- Tycho 16y agoWith VS it's almost like testing each individual line though, at least for syntax and spelling. What I did was deliberately type things with as little attention to case/formatting as possible, and then watch to see VS transform it into neatness. Which meant it understood the line as expected. Can't expect every editor to have the same features, but some sort of 'smart' plugin would that monitored your words and picked up things that were 'probably a mistake' would be useful. Then you could run the plugin every so often. A spelling mistake can be practically invisible because of the way your brain processes things.