Everyone takes different paths.
Everyone has their favorite tidbit of advise.
Here is another favorite of mine:
When you can successfully write a few lines of code or think you're good. Don't become a "know it all"
asshole. As you can see by "some of the posts" in this thread it's a disease. It just really sucks to work with these types of individuals and their crappy code.
It may be difficult but make an effort.

happy coding
