Yield thought: 5 Stages of Programmer Incompetence
by Volker Weber
Every now and again I see glimpses of myself in ‘younger’ programmers as they struggle with the same concepts I did, fall into the same mental traps and generally make similar mistakes. Writing the 4 wrong ways post made me wonder how common these phases really are and whether we could categorize them.
You too? Well wonder no longer, for I have completed this herculean task! I’ve found myself in each of these traps at least once - some of them several times - and have seen them in others too. Are there more out there?