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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