Becoming a Better Programmer

Posted on 27 July 2017 by Pete Goodliffe

If you re passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you ve come to the right source Code Craft author Pete Goodliffe presents a collection of useful techniques and approaches to the art and craft of programming that will help boost your career and your well being.Goodliffe presents sound advice that he s learned in 15 years of professional programming The book s standalone chapters span the range of a software developer s life dealing with code, learning the trade, and improving performance with no language or industry bias Whether you re a seasoned developer, a neophyte professional, or a hobbyist, you ll find valuable tips in five independent categories Code level techniques for crafting lines of code, testing, debugging, and coping with complexityPractices, approaches, and attitudes keep it simple, collaborate well, reuse, and create malleable codeTactics for learning effectively, behaving ethically, finding challenges, and avoiding stagnationPractical ways to complete things use the right tools, know what done looks like, and seek help from colleaguesHabits for working well with others, and pursuing development as a social activity Free Read Books Becoming a Better Programmer Author Pete Goodliffe – kino-fada.fr The title seems pretty appropriate, this book tries to talk about every subject related to becoming a better programmer.I felt the book was a bit too superficial and overly preachy If I ve bought a book that says becoming a better programmer , it should assume that I m self motivated enough to want to improve as a programmer But I felt that instead of helping me on that, it was just rehashing things I already knew and saying things that I wish my peers would know.It seems the kind of book tha The title seems pretty appropriate, this book tries to talk about every subject related to becoming a better programmer.I felt the book was a bit too superficial and overly preachy If I ve bought a book that says becoming a better programmer , it should assume that I m self motivated enough to want to improve as a programmer But I felt that instead of helping me on that, it wa...This book is all about the philosophical part of software development It s a little bit of everything we read through the years, generalized in one book.It s not a bad book, but it doesn t offer anything new to the table If it s your first non technical Software Development book, then you ll learn a bit of everything, but it s definitely not enough to replace the older books as The Pragmatic Programmer , Code Complete or Clean Code This book is all about the philosophical part of software developm...Loved the colorful language used in the book Nefarious , nectrotic , different tribes of C programmers , recognizable cadences , spit and polish , bake the tests into the compile build run process , listen to your test suite , code hooligans , the careless stitches between the code components beginning to tear , codesmith are just a few It s a joy to read for the language used alone, and the tips even though if you re a mid level programmer you ve probably seen all the advice bef Loved the colorful language used in the book Nefarious , nectrotic , different tribes of C programmers , recognizable cadences , spit and polish , bake the tests into the compile build run process , listen to your test suite , code hooligans , the careless stitches between the code components beginning to tear , codesmith are just a few It s a joy to read for the language used alone, and the tips even though if you r...Pretty much what the titles says, including advice both about the technical as well as the human and social aspects of becoming a better programmer Some of this is pretty obvious, some if it is too superficial to be helpful especia...I found this book informative and entertaining I read this while getting my programming degree and it helped me to do better on my assignments and gave tips that I ll carry into my future.A mixed bag.The first part of this book focuses on coding advice, but it s not particularly concrete or actionable The examples that are present are very C specific and I could only see it being useful for beginners For example, it s full of sentences along the lines of make sure to handle errors, make sure you know how to use concurrency constructs, and always employ sound engineering techniques that minimize the likelihood of unpleasant surprises These are all correct, but a bit obvio A mixed bag.The first part of this book focuses on coding advice, but it s not particularly concrete or actionable The examples that are present are very C specific and I could only see it being useful for beginners For example, it s full of sentences along the lines of make sure to handle errors, make sure you know how to use concurrency constructs, and always employ sound engineering techniques that minimize the likelihood of unpleasant surprises These are all correct, but a bit obvious and ...A lot of authors seem think they can gather together what is essentially a ton of short blog posts and compile them into a book that will become as noteworthy and reference able as The Pragmatic Programmer Maybe The Pragmatic Programmer is also really just a collection of simple blog posts, and the only reason I liked it so much and disliked this book was because I read them at different points in my career When I read Pragmatic, I needed to read it, and it was very influential for me, and whe A lot of authors seem think they can gather together what is essentially a ton of short blog posts and compile them into a book...This book is definitely fun and insightful at the same time, which makes up a devastating combo if you are that kind of developer that does care about what he delivers, that kind of professional that gets to work before everyone else because it s not just about the money, it s because I love what I do, that kind of guy that enjoys staying up until 5 am with his favorite text editor opened and a cup of warm coffee next to him.I ve enjoyed these 360 pages I have enjoyed them so much that I m sitt This book is definitely fun and insig...Picked this up at the Library, thoroughly enjoyable read This was chalk full of the best practices knowledge I was looking for It s funny and accessible to anybody who makes a job or hobby of programming Goodliffe has something funny and something smart to say about the full stack of programming aspects, from tabs v spaces in your source code, to good testing and re factoring, on up to the squishiest of soft skills Being completely platform and technology generic may have been it s det Picked this up at the Library, thoroughly enjoyable read This was chalk full of the be...The first section was great, I got a lot out of it The other sections were good, but I didn t enjoy them as much Overall the book felt too long, but I can t pick any topic that should have been left out Chapter 30, Posturing Programmers was very annoying The author even admitted he was being flippant with that chapter His tone with it was completely out of place with the tone of the rest of the book He really needs to throw that chapter away and ...

27 July 2017

Pete Goodliffe