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Have a read of Clean Code and the Pragmatic Programmer. I’ve seen this happen before in teams that code all day but don’t see themselves as developers. You nee
by trengrj 9y ago
Have a read of Clean Code and the Pragmatic Programmer.
I’ve seen this happen before in teams that code all day but don’t see themselves as developers. You need a instigate a cultural change at work where it becomes unacceptable to not apply modern development practices just because the team sees themselves as “quants” first.
- purplerabbit 9y agoI would actually encourage OP to avoid Clean Code. I found Code Complete to be a much better book. It encourages a deliberate, thoughtful, sustainable approach to the structure of your code, and provides good examples. Clean Code encourages you to decouple everything as much as possible, which in my experience leads to poor abstractions. (See https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti...)
- sixothree 9y agoSecond. When I apply a few of the simple concepts of Clean Code I end up with much better organized code.