Critical developer skills in 5 minutes or less.
Half my own learning journey, half experiment to improve software education. These posts attempt to extract best practices from, and connect readers to, leading software literature.
“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” – C.A.R. Hoare
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. - Phil Karlton Who do we write code for? This question is not often not considered, and so the answer is usually nobody. Thus, nobody is who understands the code.
“Finding the defect – and understanding it – is usually 90% of the work” - Steve McConnell