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early in a career in any field be it sports or programming, one needs good mentors. mentors help you with the basics, support and correct you when you make mistakes and keep a watch over you to not let you go stray.
one bad programming habbit i have is that i start running ahead of myself, i would create an empty project and start with a logger implementation and then would ask others how do we save user events to the disk to be able to replay them. and i haven't rendered a single triangle on the screen.
thanks to nitrix calling me a moron on #c, i realized this. i should focus on making progress in the project and these abstractions like logger, or classes/structs to bundle things together should come naturally as an after effect, i shouldn't start with them.
as someone learning, one should learn without any fear of judgement or disapproval. good developers often don't sugar coat things and sometimes it can be pointy. you are there to learn and learn from the scoldings too, "why are you being scolded", what did you do wrong?
sometimes in arguments over approaches, there is this urge to prove your point and put the other's argument down, don't give into it. always put both sides side-by-side and without bias see which one is better, if you find other's argument week, point it out politely.
good mentors are gems and if you have one, find yourself lucky
and if you get a chance to mentor someone, find yourself lucky
"you learn more when you teach"
