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How to be a programmer

Hobbes · 2005-11-29 20:17:32

Found this on my wanderings. http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html Some of its quite interesting.

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29-11-2005 9:17pm

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Hobbes

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Found this on my wanderings.

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

Some of its quite interesting.

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#2 29-11-2005 10:31pm
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nice. but it's an awful lot of reading

you'll find programmers-to-be are not big readers. if a program doesn't work, hitting the screen will fix it, etc.

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#3 29-11-2005 10:33pm
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projectmayhem wrote:

you'll find programmers-to-be are not big readers.

I've found that those types of programmers-to-be rarely become good programmers.

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#4 29-11-2005 11:42pm
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aidan_walsh wrote:

I've found that those types of programmers-to-be rarely become good programmers.

Agreed. That fine article could form the basis for a book titled zen and the art of programming...

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