[billpatrianakos]

You don't sound like a noob to me. It's important to just get some shit working sometimes. Clean ans readable is a nice goal to have. In fact there are a ton of things "good" coders do that we'd all like to strive for but in the end I always ask myself "is following x principle getting shit working?" and if the answer isn't a clear yes then it doesn't matter. We need to stop getting hung up on all this stuff. Just make something work. Try to be clean, concise, and readable but make sure the motherfucker works at the end of the day or it's a waste.