97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 95 What would the first two programmers do if their tasks took more than two hours? After rea ...

(^96) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Large, Interconnected Data Belongs to a Database Diomidis Spinellis iFOUR Y APPLiCA ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 97 Another advantage of basing your code around an RDBMS involves the han- dling of relations ...

(^98) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Learn Foreign Languages ........................... Klaus Marquardt PROGRAMMERS NEE ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 99 Beyond communication with machine, self, and peers, a project has many stakeholders, most ...

(^100) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Learn to Estimate Giovanni Asproni AS A PROGRAMMER, you need to be able to provide ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 101 n A estimate is an approximate calculation or judgment of the value, number, quantity, o ...

(^102) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Learn to Say, “Hello, World” Thomas Guest PULA LEE, username leep, more commonly k ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 103 Hoppy admitted he wasn’t sure. To my surprise, he didn’t reach for K&R. Instead, he c ...

(^104) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Let Your Project Speak for Itself Daniel Lindner YOUR PROjECT PROBABLY HAS A VERSi ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 105 Depending on the type of extreme feedback device, you can hear the build break, see the r ...

(^106) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know The Linker Is Not a Magical Program .................. Walter Bright DEPRESSiNGLY ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 107 So, let’s say the linker is saying def is defined more than once. Many program- ming lang ...

(^108) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know The Longevity of Interim Solutions Klaus Marquardt WHY DO WE CREATE iNTERiM SOLUTi ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 109 entropy or internal complexity grows and its maintainability decreases. How- ever, this i ...

(^110) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Make Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly and Hard to Use Incorrectly Scott Meyers ONE ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 111 A good way to design interfaces that are easy to use correctly is to exercise them before ...

(^112) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Make the Invisible More Visible Jon Jagger MSPECTSANY A OF iNViSiBiLiTY are rightl ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 113 Invisibility can be dangerous. You think more clearly when you have some- thing concrete ...

(^114) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Message Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems Russel Winder POGR ...