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Yea, I have learned some important practices while programming projects but I feel as though my coding is rather messy. It's not as though I haven't programmed
by testtesting123 5y ago
Yea, I have learned some important practices while programming projects but I feel as though my coding is rather messy.
It's not as though I haven't programmed at all since I build out and maintain expriments for research. It's just that I feel that I am just programming to get things done and have no clear structure to my code.
- tincholio 5y agoI spent some 16 years in academia, so I understand your context... It's very easy to fall in the "quick hack" trap, and end up with a terrible mess. On the other hand, much of the code you do while doing research is truly throw-away stuff. What I found helped me (especially when coming back to my code later on), was to use literate programming (in org-mode) to record my thought process along with the (often polyglot) code.