Book highlights in 97 things every programmer should know

content/reviews/books/97-things-every-programmer-should-know.md

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 title = "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts - Kevlin Henney"
 date = 2020-03-22
+updated = 2020-10-26
 
 [taxonomies]
 tags = ["books", "reviews", "it", "3 stars", "2020 challenge"]
@@ -35,6 +36,48 @@ some pointers on where to start, but for people who are in the area for some
 time (and may already read some books/posts about the topics), it may feel a
 bit like a waste of time.
 
+## Highlights
+
+>  Repetition in Process Calls for Automation 
+
+>  Repetition in Logic Calls for Abstraction 
+
+>  learn much faster by writing test code 
+
+>  ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED IN SOFTWARE LONG ENOUGH has heard questions like this:
+>  I’m getting exception XYZ. Do you know what the problem is? 
+
+*Note*: I get that *a lot*!
+
+>  As you work on a project, you will understand more of the problem domain
+>  and, hopefully, find more effective ways of reaching the goal 
+
+>  Hint: Write code because it adds value, not because it amuses you.) 
+
+*Note*: Well, and what actually "adds value"? Does refactoring something adds
+value, if the only thing it does is making it easier for *me* to understand?
+
+>  That isn’t YAGNI. If you don’t need it right now, don’t write it right now.) 
+
+>  The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s
+>  outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough
+>  to allow the project to be controlled to meet them 
+
+>  Try to learn from other people’s mistakes, so that your code won’t contain
+>  the same ones.
+
+*Note*: Work on new mistakes :)
+
+>  IN ALL BUT THE SMALLEST DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, people work with people.
+
+>  Compared to “hard” engineering, the software development world is at about
+>  the same place the bridge builders were when the common strategy was to
+>  build a bridge and then roll something heavy over it. If it stayed up, it
+>  was a good bridge. If not, well, time to go back to the drawing board 
+
+>  A bridge builder would never hear from his boss, “Don’t bother doing
+>  structural analysis on that building—we have a tight deadline.
+
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 [^1]: No, I'm not saying that Uncle Bob isn't worth getting 3 spots, so maybe