You can stop improving your debugging skills When I first started coding in college, I remember how hard programming was in those days. One project, we were tasked to build KABOOM! Back then, I was not good at design. We’re talking “death from a thousand if’s” here. My professor encouraged everyone to write many comments. Now I understand why… our code was impossible to read! Back then, no ones code read like a book.

1. Leave the code better than you found it To be more caring developers we must treat the code we write with respect and reverence. We must respect the future readers of your code. We often find ourselves placed with the task of maintaining legacy codebases. Some are prettier than others, but at the end of the day they are valuable to their users and serve a great purpose for the company.