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Quote: What's your least favorite part of coding?
Coding.
Yeah, I'm burnt out at the moment; have been for 6 months or so. Ugh. Extensive overuse of tight deadlines usually causes this for me.
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I hear that. I got burnt out due to lack of challenge and lack of creativity, coupled with long hours. I can handle eating and breathing code but not always on another person's agenda, and not if it's the same stuff over and over again. How many different ways can you design an e-commerce app? It makes it somehow worse when other people are actually excited about it.
I left the field for years.
I got scouted off codeproject actually. That's what dragged me back in. I'm enjoying IoT and embedded because it reminds me of the same type of problems I faced coding in the 1980s and early '90s. The idea is to get little things to do big things, and solve problems on a limited medium. It brings the challenge and creativity back for me, like getting TrueType running on a system with 192kB of RAM or less.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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The bit where you write beautiful, elegant code that solves are well-defined, common problem in an easy way with seamless integration and your users take one look at it and point at the huge flaw you didn't see.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Blasphemy! Such users are non-existent. Russion bots! And they LIE!!!!
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Chris Maunder wrote: and your users take one look at it and point at the huge flaw you didn't see.
Or when a user that is working less than 2 weeks there blocks the execution in such a way that you need to step in with the laptop and manually reset something, after 4 years of non stop stable as a rock working record...   
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Having to track down and fix a poorly reported bug in code written years ago by someone who's long since moved on and who coded using unusual patterns for no obvious benefit.
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When it must work, is right, is simple but doesn't.
I have been struggling most of Sunday where 2 old iframes src=(path to mvc view) work fine but the new one, just like the others is producing a 404. I can go to the folder in dos and copy the view iis can't find to somewhere and that is ok, and it's in the same folder as the others. I have stared at the code and stared at the code.
These days put me in a foul mood.
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Having to debug old code and work out what the hell was thinking the idiot that wrote that code just to find out after a while, that I was that idiot.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Testing is the worst. Documentation is the worst too. After that, I go into a bit of a decline.
(With apologies to Douglas Adams)
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Recoding because some product manager has changed his/her mind and shoehorned some feature modification into the spec, which trashes the design and requires a major rewrite. I hate doing things twice.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
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Mine is not technical. Overall, I am pleased with the tools and helps I have in VS2022.
My least favorite part of coding is interference in my coding by non-technical project managers.
Such as (and I paraphrase for brevity):
“That will take too long to do it right.”
“Are we there yet?”
“I read somewhere you should be using language Y instead of language X. Go back and rewrite all the code in language X.”
“We don’t need exception handling and logging. Just do it without all that.”
“Why is it taking so long?”
“Let’s add more programmers so we get this done sooner.” (said about halfway or after the midpoint of the project)
“We need more meetings.”
And, of course, the reader could add more.
P.S. I have over 20 years as a project manager with the technical knowledge, skills, and abilities. This is about the non-technical project managers who don’t have the necessary knowledge and experience on how software engineering projects differ from other projects they learned about in their coursework. I thank God everyday for those non-technical project managers that understand they need to learn the difference and are teachable. They make fantastic project managers.
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The basic lesson they should've been taught is that a little learning is a dangerous thing.
Or putting it another way, the more you learn the more you see how little you know....
I'm currently bingeing on the very perceptive BBC comedies "Twenty Twelve" and "W1A", where several of the characters illustrate the above very well. Chief airhead and "Head of Brand" Siobhan Sharpe portrays this kind of PIA hilariously.
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Learning to code with C# and coming from VB 6 & VB.Net and not know what I am doing
So asking a question on CP and receiving an answer that
Makes me think
Tells me what to understand
OR best some example code that I can expand on
The real fun is going back and fixing the code in a application
when I learn a better way to structure the code
ie putting all my CRUD functions in a Library
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Forgive me, but I think you may have misread my question?
I was asking about the least favorite, not your favorite.
Maybe I misunderstood your response though.
*head scratch*
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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YES I misread your question
Guess I was on the positive side of everything today
NO you did not misunderstand my response
Perhaps my least favorite thing is NOT knowing what I am doing
and asking dumb questions.
I try to not be like the poster that asked OG in the questions
Where do I find that
I have looked at your IoT graphic library
Trying to make a IR remote to turn on my shop vac
when I start my Table Saw 20 amp circuit
The one I purchased keeps tripping the breaker
so I just keep them on separate circuits
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Choroid wrote: Trying to make a IR remote to turn on my shop vac
I know there are off the shelf IR tranceivers and such so it shouldn't be incredibly difficult.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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My worst part of coding is when I'm constantly asked to defend the code when it turns out that the data is the cause of the problem.
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Trying to explain to Dunning-Kruger management types why their brilliant idea would cause a disaster.
Favorite quote from a CEO: "it's all objects, right? Can't you just change it anyway you want?"
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Debugging. It makes me see how stupid I can be.
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I don't like it, but I feel like it's good for the soul to be reminded periodically of how little I actually know. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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Take heart - the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. So the corollary must be that the more you realise how little you know, the more you must have learned.
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Explaining to other programmers that because the code they are working on was first coded 20 years ago there is no possible way that those programmers could have designed it to work with what is needed now.
And in the same way they should not try to guess what will be needed 20 years from now by adding stuff that has nothing to do with what is needed now.
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I remember learning to code in 1978. My instructor said I was using too much storage using 4 digit years. Most code wouldn't be running by 2000.
In 2000 I was doing the job I hated most debugging code written 22+ years before where the programmer chose to save space and made it necessary to rewrite code to use 4 digit years.
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And you can still buy a horse buggy whip. But one must use the 'horse' when looking since there is now a different meaning for 'buggy whip' that is more popular.
But that doesn't mean that the automobile should be trashed.
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I answered a question on VSCode in QA this morning, and ended with a suggestion that he might have to talk to MS Tech Support.
So he came back asking for the MS Tech Support link ... he got google. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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