7 Frustrating things about being a programmer

Question

Like any other job, programming has its frustrating aspects. Briefly share your list of frustrating things about being a programmer.

Answer 1

What are the seven things?

Answer 2

Here are seven things that drove me nuts:

1.People assuming you can fix any computer-related problem - Yes, I write code for a living; no, I can’t help you with your printing problem or that attachment you can’t open or that laptop that won’t boot up. Unless you want to buy me lunch or a beer, then maybe I can help.

2. End users not providing enough information about bugs - Thanks for the bug report, but writing simply “It doesn’t work” isn’t all that helpful. How about telling me things like what screen you were on, what action you took, what you expected to happen and what actually happened, and what (if any) error message you got. It never hurts to include browser and OS or platform, either. Basically, by providing more information upfront you will save us both the time of me having to come back to you with “Now what exactly were you doing?” and will help get your problem solved faster.

3.People ignoring documentation - Part of my job as a developer was to write documentation, sometimes technical docs for other developers and sometimes end user documentation. It was written and made available to you for a reason; please at least take a spin through it before coming to me and asking me to explain from scratch how something works.

4. Overly zealous Scrum Masters - Agile came into my life later in my coding career and, for the most part, I liked it. But one thing I didn’t like, Scrum Masters who made the Nazis look easy going. Does it really matter who moves the yellow sticky note to the “In Progress” column of the Scrum board? Will the project come crashing down if I sit (or lean on a table) during a stand up? Take it easy, fella.

Are you a programmer? What do you find most frustrating about the job? Let's make it up to 7😃

Answer 3

coming up in a bit

Answer 4

sounds good!

Answer 5

@Favour

Thank you for sharing!

Answer 6

My number one pet peeve is having to read other people's code that is just not well organized. Anything from strangely indented statements, to inconsistent coding practices (such as declaring and initializing variables at the same time sometimes, and at other times simply declaring and initializing before the first usage) just make me not want to read it at all. Also gratuitously using comments can be irritating because it usually means the original code is written poorly (good code is self explanatory).