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Expert Software Designers read. And do it continuously. Not only HN and medium, but big "essence" ideas that you do not get usually on day to day tasks, and mol

by rgrau 7y ago

Expert Software Designers read. And do it continuously. Not only HN and medium, but big "essence" ideas that you do not get usually on day to day tasks, and mold the perception of problems and solutions. People familiar with Wirth, Kay, McCarthy, Iverson, Moore's (and pals) works have a fundamentally broader vision of problems and their solutions. It's obvious, but all those points are not learnt in a discrete manner but they work as a whole and grow on you during the journey.

throw51319 7y ago
What readings would you recommend for an advanced reader?
- rgrau 7y ago
  I don't consider myself that much advanced, but I think Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought"[1], and Wirth's "A Plea for Lean Software"[2] make one rethink many concepts of our daily programming tasks (the 2 articles work at 2 different levels) But really, anything you grab from any of them is awesome by default. 1. http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd... 2. https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
commandlinefan 7y ago
> Expert Software Designers read “Read? Books? With pages? And chapters? I don’t pay you to read, I pay you to program! And I’ve seen programming, programming is done with a keyboard, so I’d better hear typing! And I expect you to tell me exactly what you’re going to be doing, hour by hour, for the next two weeks, or ‘sprint’ or whatever you nerds call these things these days, and I’d better see lots of commits to the repository because I’m checking who’s committing the most because I don’t pay you to read and learn, I pay you to know and if you don’t already know there are a thousand foreigners lined up to do your job for ten cents a day so you’d better get in line, programmer!”
- rgrau 7y ago
  oh, hey boss! I just bought this cherry extraloud MX-blue so you can hear me clickyclacky from your office. And created a deeplearning model to count clicks for our new pay-by-press payroll model. something something democratization :)

by rgrau 7y ago

throw51319 7y ago

What readings would you recommend for an advanced reader?

rgrau 7y ago
I don't consider myself that much advanced, but I think Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought"[1], and Wirth's "A Plea for Lean Software"[2] make one rethink many concepts of our daily programming tasks (the 2 articles work at 2 different levels) But really, anything you grab from any of them is awesome by default. 1. http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pdf http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd... 2. https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

commandlinefan 7y ago

> Expert Software Designers read “Read? Books? With pages? And chapters? I don’t pay you to read, I pay you to program! And I’ve seen programming, programming is done with a keyboard, so I’d better hear typing! And I expect you to tell me exactly what you’re going to be doing, hour by hour, for the next two weeks, or ‘sprint’ or whatever you nerds call these things these days, and I’d better see lots of commits to the repository because I’m checking who’s committing the most because I don’t pay you to read and learn, I pay you to know and if you don’t already know there are a thousand foreigners lined up to do your job for ten cents a day so you’d better get in line, programmer!”

rgrau 7y ago
oh, hey boss! I just bought this cherry extraloud MX-blue so you can hear me clickyclacky from your office. And created a deeplearning model to count clicks for our new pay-by-press payroll model. something something democratization :)