Geek Logbook

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Category: Notes

Notes taking about the different books I’ve read since the blog started. Usually related to specific technology but, sometimes I read about tech history.

Dijkstra: The Humble programmer

Dijistra wrote some interesting things about the activity of programmer. In this opportunity I’m going to make some quotations and notes about the article: The humble programmer Rules “discovered” for the creation of software A number of rules have been discovered, violation of which will either seriously impair or totally destroy the intellectual manageability of
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Coders at Work

Coders at work is a series of interviews made by Peter Seibel in 2009 where different programmers talk about their views about the technology, development, how they work as a programmer and the environment where people in tech works. The general overview of this book is really good because if you read it, you’ll learn
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While you learn while you build it?

The quotation and the necessity of understand what you have done is really important when you try to understand some concepts. For that reason when I found this video: I remember the importance of being someone that trying to understand the concept of the “project based courses”. Because If you don’t know what you have
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People in tech are aware of history? Donald Knuth

Seibel: Do you feel like programmers and computer scientists are aware enough of the history of our field? It is, after all, a pretty short history. Knuth: There aren’t too many that are scholars. Even when I started writing my books in 1963, I didn’t think people knew what had happened in 1959 I was
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