mridulsharma612

The Skills Poor Programmers Lack

A friend and I had a discussion about the basic skills that are often lacking in experienced programmers. How can a programmer work for ten or twenty years and never learn to write good code? So often they need close supervision to ensure they go down the right path, and they can never be trusted to take technical leadership on larger tasks. It seems they are just good enough to get by in their job, but they never become effective.

We thought about our experiences and came up with three fundamental skills that we find are most often missing. Note that these are not skills which take a considerable amount of talent or unique insight. Nor are they "trends" or "frameworks" to help you get a new job. They are basic fundamentals which are prerequisites to being a successful programmer.

Understand how the language works

Programmers cannot write good code unless they understand what they are typing. At the most basic level, this means they need to understand the rules of

	<?php

	// model

	class User
	{
	private $name;
	private $age;
	private $sex;
	private $id;

	<?php
	class Model
	{
	// Store the data
	private $carPrice;
	// Set the data
	public function setPrice($price)
	{
	$this -> carPrice = $price;
	}

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>jQuery validation plug-in - main demo</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/screen.css">
	<script src="js/jquery.js"></script>
	<script src="js/jquery.validate.js"></script>
	<script>
	$.validator.setDefaults({

	<?php
	require_once "connection.php";
	//print_r($_POST);
	//exit();
	if (isset($_POST['firstname']) && isset($_POST['lastname']) && isset($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['username']) && isset($_POST['password']) && isset($_POST['confirmpassword'])) {
	$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
	$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
	$email = $_POST['email'];
	$username = $_POST['username'];
	$password = $_POST['password'];

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>

	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
	<title>Email Registration Form</title>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
	<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script src="js/dist/jquery.validate.js"></script>

	$(document).ready(function() {

	$("#email_registration").validate({
	rules: {
	firstname: "required",
	lastname: "required",
	email: {
	required: true,
	email: true
	},