--- title: 8 Mistakes Every Amateur Programmers Make | daily.dev description: As programmers, we will inevitably make mistakes. Even the most accomplished specialists make them. But you'll become a better programmer faster if you don't... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/8-mistakes-every-amateur-programmers-make-8jlq4awr1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 8 Mistakes Every Amateur Programmers Make | daily.dev og:description: As programmers, we will inevitably make mistakes. Even the most accomplished specialists make them. But you'll become a better programmer faster if you don't... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/8-mistakes-every-amateur-programmers-make-8jlq4awr1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8jLQ4awr1.png og:image:alt: 8 Mistakes Every Amateur Programmers Make og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 8 Mistakes Every Amateur Programmers Make **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@chp](https://daily.dev/chp) · 7 min read · 136 upvotes · 18 comments ## Summary As programmers, we will inevitably make mistakes. Even the most accomplished specialists make them. But you'll become a better programmer faster if you don't make the same mistakes over and over. In this article, I'll discuss some of the mistakes you might be making when you're coding day-to-day. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@grtjjhyi** · 7 upvotes > Nice article. **@highbbbgy** · 6 upvotes > That's an amazing article. **@stevengraham678** · 6 upvotes > How much months does it take to overcome these problems? **@albertgraham600** · 5 upvotes > Excellent article. **@peppoprogrammer** · 3 upvotes > Good article chaitanya. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/8-mistakes-every-amateur-programmers-make-8jlq4awr1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"8 Mistakes Every Amateur Programmers Make","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8-mistakes-every-amateur-programmers-make-8jlq4awr1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/8-mistakes-every-amateur-programmers-make-8jlq4awr1"},"datePublished":"2021-12-03T19:21:57.257Z","dateModified":"2021-12-03T19:21:57.257Z","description":"As programmers, we will inevitably make mistakes. 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