About programming – 7 points

So many times I see people saying : “I can not have time to follow the tutorials – but give me some fast acces to some tutorials that solve my problem”.

I have

  1. Programming is not about code – programming is about decisions that you do about what code to write.
  2. Programming can not be learned by one tutorial – find more,skip it the obvious and read more
  3. Programming is not an easy job to do : you must have  knowledge (about at least the language used),it takes divide et impera and many more (testing being the obvious forgotten one …)
  4. Programming is a self-continuing learning : the products that you are using change – and I am more productive today with VS 2010 (and .NET4 ) than I was with VB  3 ( although VB 3 was EXCELLENT for that times )
  5. Programming is about experience : you can learn from others,but from yours mistakes,things that worked and right things ( my least : error to not de-normalize tables…)
  6. Programming is about keeping happy your technical leader ( or,if you are the technical leader,the project manager) . And I advise you to being one if you can,to see their problems.
  7. Finally  – there is not a royal way to programming  – take your time and enjoy!

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2 responses to “About programming – 7 points”

  1. Mark Avatar

    Good list! I would also add to your list: to always try and help other programmers, we are all in this together and helping each other makes the community that much better.

  2. zerodtkjoe Avatar
    zerodtkjoe

    Thanks for the info

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