Hello, Codeforces!
Currently, there are many blogs about how to be good at programming, their practice methods are super useful. Today I will write oppositely, I will show you ways to be bad at programming. I guarantee, if you follow what I will mention below, you will be bad forever, to the point of not being able to get better :)
1. Spend as little time as possible
"Dilligence in place of intelligence". If you spend half an hour improving your programming skill, you cannot be bad. Instead, you should spend time doing other stuff like surfing Facebook or playing games. In case you have nothing to do, you would better go to sleep. One more thing to keep in mind, don't enter the programming forums, don't subscribe YouTube channels or reading blogs about programmings, because if you do that, you will be easy to gain knowledge and cannot be bad.
2. Despise elementary knowledge
Don't learn elementary knowledge like binary search or sorting algorithms or simple data structures. Those things are basis of being a good programmer in near future. So if you hear someone says you have to learn these basic algorithms, don't follow them, if you don't want to be good.
3. Don't follow to the forebears' advice
The forebears like your teachers, brothers, sisters or friends, ... are those who have had practical experience, they know how to learn programming well. If they give you advice, just do the opposite :) or at least ignore it, I swear you won't be able to make any progress in learning programming.
4. Learning theories is always enough
"Learning with practice", that's might be the only way to develop skills, so don't practice. Solving problems will help you to be good in no time. So don't do that, theories are more than enough, or you don't even need to learn theories if you want to become the most stupid person.
5. Don't find free courses on the Internet
Nowadays, it is not hard to find a free course with high quality on the Internet. Don't search keywords like "Elementary C++ programming" or "Basic data structures", etc... if you don't want to be better.
6. Don't be proactive
If you encounter a difficult problem, don't spend time thinking, just ask your friends or searching for tutorial. In short, you shouldn't be proactive, don't think before asking.
7. Don't learn English
If you notice, the most quality documents about technology or programming is mainly written in English. In addition, if you learn English well, you will be exposed to an extremely rich and diverse source of materials, which will make you have more knowledge instead of being ignorant about programming.
8. Don't have passion
After all, if you are passionate, you will be a good programmer in short time. So keep in mind, if you want to be ignorant about programming, absolutely don't have passion on it. If you are forced to learn programming, for example, programming is a compulsory subject on your school, you should only learn to pass the exam, or ask someone to do homework for you.
Conclusion
Those are some of the problems that I thing are the most important if you want to be bad at programming. So how to be GOOD? Simply, just do the opposite of what I mentioned above, or at least avoid doing those things.
Have fun :)
