Flashback to the days when this IT pilot fish is still in college, and he’s proud to say most of his instructors are extremely good.

That’s most of them. “On the first day of class in my senior year, one particular instructor stressed how important it was to thoroughly document our code,” says fish. “Most of us already knew this — it was an upper-level programming course — but he said we’d lose at least a full letter grade for inadequately documented code in our assignments.”

No problem, fish thinks. He’s working his way through school as a professional programmer, and he’s learned good documentation habits from some very talented mentors.

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