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Lucas Arantes
August 26, 2016
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The Pragmatic Programmer
A talk to incentive coders to be more pragmatic.
Lucas Arantes
August 26, 2016
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Transcript
The Pragmatic Programmer
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Critical Thinking
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Provide options, don’t make lame excuses
“The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing
weak” J.B. Bossuet
Everybody is learning
Don’t live with broken windows
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DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself
“Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative
representation within a system” The Pragmatic Programmer
When you don’t follow the DRY principle • Increase debugging
difficult • Have to change the same code twice • Increase redundancy • More time to develop a new feature • Refactor to fix your code • ... DRY
Catalyst for change
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Invest in your knowledge portfolio
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest” Benjamin
Franklin
Invest in your knowledge portfolio • invest regularly • diversify
• buy low, sell high • manage risk • review and rebalance
Communicate
“A large part of our day is spent communicating, so
we need to do it well” The Pragmatic Programmer
Ideas to better communicating • know/plan what you want to
say • write an outline • ask yourself: Does this get across whatever I’m trying to say? Refine it until it does • know your audience, understand the needs interests and capabilities of your audience
Know more than one language
“The limits of languages influence how you think about a
problem” The Pragmatic Programmer
Use one editor well
Choose an editor, know it well, and use it for
all editing tasks.
Good editors have the following features • configurable • extensible
• programmable
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