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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts - Kevlin Henney</h1>
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2020-03-22
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/it/">#it</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2010/">#published:2010</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7003902-97-things-every-programmer-should-know">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no
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matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for
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programmers in this book, you'll expand your skills by adopting new approaches
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to old problems, learning appropriate best practices, and honing your craft
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through sound advice.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span><div>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>It's kinda weird to read a book that your experience agrees with what it is
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said: I have a collection of things I learnt in 30 years doing software
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development, and a lot of things said in the book agree with it.</p>
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<p>Now, because there are several authors, the writing style changes a lot: Some
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are really dense and difficult to follow, some others are simple and fun to
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read, and some feel really repetitive.</p>
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<p>One of the downsides of the book is that they should get a more diverse group.
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Sure, Uncle Bob is highly influential and has a lot of good tips, but giving
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him 3 articles, when there are only 6 women and 2 black men in the list of
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authors seems kinda a waste<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>.</p>
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<p>Sure, for people starting in the development world, it's a good book, giving
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some pointers on where to start, but for people who are in the area for some
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time (and may already read some books/posts about the topics), it may feel a
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bit like a waste of time.</p>
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<h2 id="highlights">Highlights</h2>
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<p>Repetition in Process Calls for Automation </p>
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<p>Repetition in Logic Calls for Abstraction </p>
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<p>learn much faster by writing test code </p>
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<p>ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED IN SOFTWARE LONG ENOUGH has heard questions like this:
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I’m getting exception XYZ. Do you know what the problem is? </p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: I get that <em>a lot</em>!</p>
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<p>As you work on a project, you will understand more of the problem domain
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and, hopefully, find more effective ways of reaching the goal </p>
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<p>Hint: Write code because it adds value, not because it amuses you.) </p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: Well, and what actually "adds value"? Does refactoring something adds
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value, if the only thing it does is making it easier for <em>me</em> to understand?</p>
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<p>That isn’t YAGNI. If you don’t need it right now, don’t write it right now.) </p>
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<p>The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s
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outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough
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to allow the project to be controlled to meet them </p>
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<p>Try to learn from other people’s mistakes, so that your code won’t contain
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the same ones.</p>
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<p><em>Note</em>: Work on new mistakes :)</p>
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<p>IN ALL BUT THE SMALLEST DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, people work with people.</p>
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<p>Compared to “hard” engineering, the software development world is at about
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the same place the bridge builders were when the common strategy was to
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build a bridge and then roll something heavy over it. If it stayed up, it
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was a good bridge. If not, well, time to go back to the drawing board </p>
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<p>A bridge builder would never hear from his boss, “Don’t bother doing
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structural analysis on that building—we have a tight deadline.</p>
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<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
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<p>No, I'm not saying that Uncle Bob isn't worth getting 3 spots, so maybe
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the list should have more than 97 points to let others also have a spot.</p>
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