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Huh
Maybe the only class you could take way back then was mathematics and it covered anything there was to learn? 😊
Month 3 into my Greek learning:
- finally started an Anki 🇬🇷 deck! 💪
- reading is better but my memory remains🧀
ALT Screenshot of an Anki flashcard for studying Greek.
Ok so it took me just under a year of studying every day, but I finally did it.
Duolingo Spanish is now done!✅
What's next?
More studying! 😅 It just never frigging ends with languages, does it.
ALT Screenshot of Duolingo Spanish tree all in gold color.
Day 30 ✅🐢🏁!
Themes in software craftsmanship:
- conquer complexity!💪
- be sensitive to indications that your program is hard to understand (people first, computers second)
- Iterate, repeatedly, again & again
- a blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all
ALT Code Complete: November 2021 Reading Challenge
Day 29 ✅!
On personal character:
- persistence can be either an asset or a liability (know when to give up, Eva😅)
- to be a great developer, develop the right habits
⭐ Programming is about communicating with another programmer first and communicating with the computer second.
ALT Code Complete: November 2021 Reading Challenge
Day 28✅ so close to 🏁!
On commenting:
- good code is its own best documentation
- focus comments on the why rather than the how
- document surprises, justify violations of good programming style, prepare the reader for what is to follow
⭐Don't comment tricky code; rewrite it!
ALT Code Complete: November 2021 Reading Challenge
Day 27 ✅ almost there!
On layout and style:
- The fundamental theorem of formatting: good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program
- Usewhitespacetoincreasereadibility
- for C languages: emulating pure blocks (putting end `}` on a separate line to emulate `end If`)
ALT Code Complete: November 2021 Reading Challenge
Day 26 ✅!
Programming tools:
- I actually didn't write up any notes on this chapter😅
- a lot has changed in the past 20 years
- can't imagine programming without version control, syntax checkers and code prettifiers 😳
- also, working in a huge codebase sounds like a nightmare
ALT Code Complete: November 2021 Reading Challenge
Day 25✅ pg 709 🎉!
On integration:
- the activity in which you combine separate software components into a single system
- any sort of incremental integration (e.g. T-shaped) is better than phased integration
- make sure to build and test daily (aka CI? 🤔)
- automate stuff
ALT Code Complete November 2021 Reading Challenge
Day 24 ✅!
Managing construction:
- configuration management aka change control aka always have backups 💪
- set goals! measure stuff!
- "Programmers and managers are people, and they work best when treated as such." #wat? 😳
Yeah, this chapter was a little odd 😅👇:
ALT "Religious issues" aka sensitive issues that every software developer supposedly has.