Learning to Program
Kareem Shehata
kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 1 13:22:40 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf
> Of Madison Kelly
> Sent: Monday 01 October 2007 09:15
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Learning to Program
>
<snip>
> c) Don't be a show off and write self-documenting code. As
> you learn, you will be tempted to use more and more complex
> code that incorporates new tricks you have learned... Don't
> fall into this trap! *Always* use the simplest, most obvious
> steps, tools and commands to accomplish a task. There is a
> true beauty in simplicity!
>
> The senior programmer at my last job showed me a short
> article on the progression of a programmer by showing a
> simple "Hello, World!" script.
> I wish I could find it again, but it went something like this:
<snip>
Very true. A slight twist to this: the expert makes the solution to a
difficult problem look obvious and easy to follow. Aim for this with
everything you do, no matter how complicated the problem.
-kms
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