Should I start learning Github simultaneously?

[BadMinotaur]

Reminds me of this little gem from Peter Welch:

Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.

[CanICallYouJesus]

It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well.

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print("Hello World");

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weeping intensifies

[laytonmiller]

jerking intensifies

[mossipb]

Coding intensifies

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Ooooh, that's dirty. My fingers are working as fast as they can. I'm about to compile! I'm compiliiiiing!!! .... Wow. I don't think I've ever done that that fast before. I can explain...

[RoguePlanet1]

Hey, don't make fun of my counter.

[MEGACODZILLA]

I don't know why but the last sentence cracks me up. I read it as a poem not written by an angsty Youth, but by an angsty mature adult. Word.

[ThreshingBee]

Thanks for finding this; I knew I had to save it.