I made my decision to go to university before I started college, just like quite a few other people I suppose. I had a plan to get through college, get my degree and then go off into the ‘big world’ of computing. Well so far it’s going good! This year I completed my two year college course with the final grade of three distinctions (out of a possible three) and as of the 1st of October I will be studying at the University of Glamorgan.

The course is a BSC honors degree in software engineering which spans over the next three years. I enrolled on the 25th (a couple of days ago) and am just waiting now for my first day. All is going well but I am a little unsure about something - I’ve had a look at a list which had all the names of the people studing a computer based course along with their course title. From what I can see there is only me and two other people taking the software engineering course. This is fine but I’m just a little surprised that there is so few of us.

So that’s about it for now. Will keep you updated (if anyone is at all interested that is - which I kind of doubt :p)

Nobody’s perfect and as a web designer/coder myself I don’t claim to be a professional or anything close to that. But there has been a few times where people have given me code to work on or to look over and there have been some really annoying things which are easily avoidable.

So here is just a small list of some of the things which can quite easily annoy a coder and have annoyed me in the past on many occasions.

1. 1,000+ lines of un-commented code
   - Im sure this is quite a common issue and most probably almost every coder will come across it at some stage. Too often have I been involved in scripts which have consisted of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of lines of code without a single comment to explain what it does. This usually tends to be the case when the original creator no longer works or supports the script and has therefore left it for someone else to take on. Because he/she was the original creator and did not pass on any hand-written notes he/she may have had (if any) then he/she is the only person who knows what the heck the code is doing. Yes it is possible to figure it all out but that can take hours and hours depending on the size/complexity of the script.

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