In the 1980s, my mother and I represented two different worlds of software development, divided not just by the tasks we performed, but by the very philosophy of how code should come into being. She was a database developer for a corporate giant, practicing a meticulous craft known as Top-Down design. She and her team would spend weeks, sometimes months, living in the realm of diagrams,
For decades, the choice of programming language for a project was a decision laden with consequence and controversy. It was a commitment to a particular ecosystem, a talent pool, and a set of performance characteristics. It was the primary tool of the trade, and developers, like master craftspeople, had their favorites—languages whose idioms and paradigms felt like an extension of their own
I like Natural Selection 2 - the Real Time Strategy slash First Person Shooter game. In order to play it though a reasonably good commander is essential. There are many YouTube videos out there that discuss the commander role in high level terms. But I am seeing a lot of holes in these discussions, and without these holes filled in, no one is going to try to learn to be