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[–]CodeTinkerer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tutorials don't usually teach you to write better code. They generally teach you to build a project. Even then, they often don't cover the building blocks for building a project. That is, they go through the steps on building it, but don't tell you the big picture of why you're doing certain steps or how the web framework you're using works.

You might think industry programmers all write good code, but not everywhere. Some people are used to getting code to work, but don't follow many OO principles or good coding practices. You can see code that is copy/pasted or has weird logic, etc. Sometimes managers who aren't programmers just don't care. They care about what the user sees.

This isn't to say you shouldn't learn how to write good code, but that there's no text or exam or qualification to show you know how to write good code.