97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 55 Once you’ve learned the ropes of a new language, you’ll be surprised how you’ll start usin ...

(^56) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Nail Your Program into the Upright Position ........... Verity Stob i ONCE WR ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 57 Needless to say, whenever something went wrong in applications based on this class, they v ...

(^58) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Rely on “Magic Happens Here” Alan Griffiths OOKiFOU Y L AT ANY ACTiViTY, proc ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 59 When you aren’t actively involved in things, there is an unconscious tendency to assume th ...

(^60) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Don’t Repeat Yourself ............................ Steve Smith OHELLF A T PRiNCiPLE ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 61 Repetition in Logic Calls for Abstraction Repetition in logic can take many forms. Copy-an ...

(^62) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Cal Evans iTS HA HAPPENED TO EVERY ONE OF US AT SOME POiNT. Your code was rolled on ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 63 Once checked into SCC, whether automatically or manually, it should be rolled over to the ...

(^64) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Encapsulate Behavior, Not Just State ................... Einar Landre iNYSTEMS S TH ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 65 the state, the open and close operations will behave differently. This inherent property o ...

(^66) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Floating-Point Numbers Aren’t Real Chuck Allison FLOATiNG-POiNT NUMBERS ARE NOT “RE ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 67 When you subtract nearly equal numbers, for example, the most significant digits cancel on ...

(^68) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Fulfill Your Ambitions with Open Source ................. Richard Monson-Haefel CHA ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 69 Open source provides enormous opportunities for the motivated program- mer. First, you get ...

(^70) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know The Golden Rule of API Design ....................... Michael Feathers APi DESiGN i ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 71 uses a third-party API and try to write unit tests for it. Most of the time, you’ll run in ...

(^72) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know The Guru Myth .................................. The Guru Myth .................... ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 73 Of course, there remains a huge variance in natural aptitude. Many hack- ers out there are ...

(^74) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Hard Work Does Not Pay Off ........................ Olve Maudal AS A PROGRAMMER, YO ...