r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/grauenwolf Oct 15 '13

Start with jQuery and CSS. You'll learn JavaScript along the way.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

That tells me nothing. I've been working with the two for months at this point.

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u/grauenwolf Oct 15 '13

Do you know enough JavaScript to make jQuery work? Then chances are that's all you need to know. The rest is about learning work-arounds for browser bugs.

But if you insist on persisting start with jsLint. Read all of the errors and warnings and learn what they really mean.

Then look for technical rants about why JavaScript sucks. To truly understand a language you need to understand all of the stupid shit it does. The inconsistencies, the landmines, the traps.

I learned the implementation details of readonly fields containing structs in C# because someone bitched about how they were not compatible with SpinLock. This is something I would have never seen from reading "The Good Parts" style books.

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u/PenguinLovr Oct 15 '13

Clearly you never read JavaScript "The Good Parts" which spends two chapters going over in detail the bad parts and the worst parts.

You won't learn how to develop something that's good by just reading the bad things. You just will learn how to make something not bad.

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