Working With Other People's Code

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1. Make It Yours Working With Other People's Code For The First Time Samuel E. Giddins
2. My Story • First app: November 2012 — Clickr • First job: March 2013 — Slader • First OSS contribution: May 2013 — RestKit • Now: Tumblr + CocoaPods
3. Day One • Ask questions • Technical • Business • Explore • Fix something
4. It's not about the orientation or onboarding
5. The First Bugfix This will be the smallest and most insignificant commit you will ever make to the project.
6. It will also lead the way to all the other commits. Don't be scared. Don't be reverant. Show 'em who's boss.
7. The First Bugfix • Defined problem • Easily evaluated goal • User-facing
8. Geometry Book Always goes to same page Pages with letters can't be searched for
9. Made search case-insensitive if ([aPage.name isEqualToString:aPageNumber]) { if ([[aPage.name lowercaseString] isEqualToString:[aPageNumber lowercaseString]]) {
10. Stopped assuming that the last page had the highest intVal NSInteger maxIndex = [[pages[pages.count -1] name] intValue]; NSInteger maxIndex = NSIntegerMax;
11. The First Feature
12. • Easy to see • Little code • Big impact
13. To Refactor or Not To Refactor That is the wrong question
14. • Project organization • Coding style • Pods
15. Make it perfect Make it work, then make it pretty
16. Be modular It's always good Lets you be you
17. Don't assume There's always a story
18. Be compassionate
19. Learn from the code (Especially if you think it's bad)
20. • Bugs • Improvements • Code niceties • Features
21. Figure out what's in your way
22. Get it out of your way* *Only if it's worth it
23. The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. — Bjarne Stroustrup
24. We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. — Jeff Atwood
25. There are tools to help • AppCode • ClangFormat • CocoaPods • lldb • Reveal • XCTest (seriously) • The Internet
26. Take ownership
27. By shipping, it becomes yours
28. Own Your App
29. Go Get 'Em
30. Samuel E. Giddins @segiddins segiddins.me github.com/segiddins