[plodman]

100%. I worked alone for a few years. Again self taught web development. I tried to read the “best practices” for the languages I was learning. But it was bugs galore and code I feared maintaining after release.

I then spent 5 months at a company in a team where every bit of code went through a peer review process. Even I was responsible for reviewing others code. I learnt a hell of a lot, we barely had any bugs and if we found a bug, it was usually easy to fix. Since then, writing maintainable and (importantly) readable code is my standard and I try and help other Devs do the same.

[reportgunner]

It's nice how you are telling the OP to just learn to write nice code and then you support it by anecdote about how others taught you to write nice code.

I am not under the impression that OP wants to continue writing bad code.

[AndrewDucker]

He's telling the OP to _join a team who will support you_.

[plodman]

That’s exactly what I was referring to. I thought by replying to the comment that mentioned joining a team would have provided the context of what I was agreeing too...