an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
Coding Horror: Please Don’t Learn to Code
“It assumes that more code in the world is an inherently desirable thing. In my thirty year career as a programmer, I have found this not to be the case. Should you learn to write code? No, I can’t get behind that. You should be learning to write as little code as possible. Ideally none.” “Before you go rushing out to learn to code, figure out what your problem actually is. Do you even have a problem?”
Nick Kwiatek Web & interaction designer + developer
“People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.” The Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – Joel on Software
Kinds of things vs types of things ;) “Every line of code can be inspected by itself, and if every line of code is correct, the entire body of code is correct.” “And if you see xl = cb, well, blow the Bad Code Whistle…” Oh Joel Spolsky
You wanted a banana but you got a gorilla holding the banana The Endeavour
I love metaphors for object structure so much.
I do this more with 3-digit hex colors. #fab #c0c
Are two elements overlapping each other? – amix.dk
A pretty good algorithm, once you get the coords.
Worth it for the messed up semi-colon examples, ha ha.