Software Engineering Tips: Signs that you’re a bad programmer (via Hacker News)

Signs that you’re a bad programmer
1. Inability to reason about code
2. Poor understanding of the language’s programming model
3. Deficient research skills / Chronically poor knowledge of the platform’s features
4. Inability to comprehend pointers
5. Difficulty seeing through recursion

Signs that you are a mediocre programmer
1. Inability to think in sets
2. Lack of critical thinking
3. Pinball Programming
4. Unfamiliar with the principles of security
5. Code is a mess

Signs that you shouldn’t be a programmer
1. Inability to determine the order of program execution
2. Insufficient ability to think abstractly
3. Collyer Brothers syndrome
4. Dysfunctional sense of causality
5. Indifference to outcomes