97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

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Know Well More Than Two Programming Languages ....

Russel Winder

Know Your IDE .............................

Heinz Kabutz

Know Your Limits ...........................

Greg Colvin

Know Your Next Commit ......................

Dan Bergh Johnsson

Large, Interconnected Data Belongs to a Database .....

Diomidis Spinellis

Learn Foreign Languages ......................

Klaus Marquardt

Learn to Estimate ...........................

Giovanni Asproni

Learn to Say, “Hello, World” ....................

Thomas Guest

Let Your Project Speak for Itself .................

Daniel Lindner

The Linker Is Not a Magical Program ..............

Walter Bright

The Longevity of Interim Solutions ................

Klaus Marquardt

Make Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly
and Hard to Use Incorrectly ....................

Scott Meyers