I’m an awful, terrible coder

Recently I have taken a different stance upon looking at myself, my skill level, and my productivity.

How can one improve themselves, if to themselves.. they don’t need improving?

That’s sort of my “new take” on things. In the past, I’ve always seen myself better then some coders.. and groups of people.. and I’ve put down other people’s work a lot of the time.

During the time that I used this thought process, I really didn’t improve myself or my skills at all.. because in my brain.. what needed improving?

So! My new recent stance on this, is to tell myself I’m an awful, terrible coder.  The method I just used to do something is wrong, inefficient, and terrible.

Telling myself this not only requires me to improve my code, it also requires me to dig deeper into my study of PHP, to find new, efficient, and acceptable methods of doing things.. which in return, constantly improves me.

I believe that everything can be improved, because nothing is perfect.  There is always something you can do to improve things, make them easier, and to help solve repetition.

Hopefully this will help someone else.. you awful, terrible coder.