Aggravation

[twilson]

Has anyone else ever come to the point where they can't program for more than an hour a day because when they do they want to pull out all their own hair?

I sit here working and constantly think to myself, "There must be a better way to do this." I talk myself down and am so mentally frustrated after an hour that, even though the program is working, I still think I am programming it "wrong" or sloppy, and my head hurts so much I just have to stop.

If anyone else has ever experienced this before, or has a good book/thread I can read on writing very amazingly clean code please let me know. If I don't figure something out soon I'm going to have to give up. :-(

Tom

[parawizard]

i sorta know what your talking about. Im working on a forum project and holy %#@@@ thers alot of code i alwayts want to simplify and make things more dynamic. so I have to recode the project core everytime. but it always turns out better. It helps to sit down and think about structure and dynamics of a program and right it down on paper in NON code form 🙂

[Weedpacket]

And don't be too scared to trash everything halfway through the project and start again. The experience of the problem domain you picked up first time around will help you the second time around, and the final product will almost always be a lot better than if you'd stayed with the first approach and forced it to work by a vigorous application of chewing gum and rubber bands.

[Merve]

To add to what Weed said, you can trash it, but don't delete it. You might want to copy some code from the screwy files. Just relax. Watching TV always helps...(if you're allowed to do so).