Название: The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do
Автор: Ka Wai Cheung
Издательство: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Год: 2012 (v. P1.0)
Страниц: 157
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.5 MB

You're already a great coder, but awesome coding chops aren't always enough to get you through your toughest projects. You need these 50+ nuggets of wisdom. Veteran programmers: reinvigorate your passion for developing web applications. New programmers: here's the guidance you need to get started. With this book, you'll think about your job in new and enlightened ways.

The Developer's Code isn't about the code you write, it's about the code you live by.

There are no trite superlatives here. Packed with lessons learned from more than a decade of software development experience, author Ka Wai Cheung takes you through the programming profession from nearly every angle to uncover ways of sustaining a healthy connection with your work.

You'll see how to stay productive even on the longest projects. You'll create a workflow that works with you, not against you. And you'll learn how to deal with clients whose goals don't align with your own. If you don't handle them just right, issues such as these can crush even the most seasoned, motivated developer. But with the right approach, you can transcend these common problems and become the professional developer you want to be.

Who Is the 21st-Century Programmer?
As I would find out over the next fifteen years, programming isn’t a job for the reclusive. It certainly is not about the über-nerd sitting in a dimly lit basement, sweating away for months on end, and then emerging with the final product in all its glory. Today’s applications are mainstream. We build for every user. Our clients may or may not have any idea about how we work. Our turnaround times are sometimes on the order of whirlwind weeks, not months or years. Burnout can come on suddenly; procrastination can be the path of least resistance. For us, the developers of today, building software involves obstacles that go far beyond what we encounter in our development environment. One of my good friends jokes with me on a regular basis. “What exactly is it that you do for work?” She knows I’m a programmer but doesn’t really know what that means. She questions me in that same sarcastic, probing way that Bob Slydell does as the office consultant in Office Space. I tell her this: I am a nonaccredited, overly logical psychologist, therapist, mechanic, diplomat, businessman, and teacher working in an industry that is still defining itself each and every day. That is as concise a definition I can give for the modern-day programmer.

In more than 50 nuggets of wisdom, you'll learn:

Why many traditional approaches to process and development roles in this industry are wrong - and how to sniff them out.

Why you must always say "no" to the software pet project and open-ended timelines.

How to incorporate code generation into your development process, and why its benefits go far beyond just faster code output.

What to do when your client or end user disagrees with an approach you believe in.

How to pay your knowledge forward to future generations of programmers through teaching and evangelism.

If you're in this industry for the long run, you'll be coming back to this book again and again.