Programmer proverbs

9 Feb 2015|News

Programming is about understanding with precision. Not about trying until it works.

Make specialized libraries. Modularity will follow.

Learning is your fuel. Stagnation is your enemy.

The first symptom of stagnation is preference.

When debugging, stay lean and validate your riskiest assumptions.

Being an expert can be an excuse for staying in your comfort zone.

Being a generalist can be an excuse for not learning deeply.

Treat code as work with deadlines. Treat code as polished art.

Don't have long-lasting opinions. Allow discoveries to quickly change your mind.

Elegant, efficient, and effective code beats any argument.

Humble yourself to designers. They will teach you elegance.

You write your own code more than you read it. Have someone else review it.

Ignore the popularity of a solution. Stay close to the Science.

Write code accessible to other programmers. Write code that teaches them.

Coding is neither wizardry nor kung fu. It's better.

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