To the experienced coders here on devrant: Any valuable tip(s) for newbie programmers (independent of language)?

My suggestion: Enable 'format on save' in your IDE. Seriously, how did I survive without this?!

My tip: don't try to understand everything. There is A LOT to learn and understand so it is ok to say "I don't know how this works under the hood but I know how to work with it."

The big AAAAH moment comes with time and experience.

@erik404 nice one, I totally agree!

Save. Your work often and keep a backup disk fail and systems crash.

Learn git ASAP

Please for the love of god modularize your code and understand the importance of comments and documentation.