Tag: Coders At Work

Peter Norvig is known for his technical abilities, for his degree and for being the Director of Research at google. But, he also made a big contribution to the learning discussion about how to learn to program. His famous essay: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. Blogged here: Peter Norvig Paper: Oh shinny! antidote is

Joe Armstrong has talked a lot about the topic or being a good programmer as we can see in the previous posts: What Joe Armstrong did to be a better programmer?, Joe Armstrong and the Print Statements and Joe Armstrong and the importance of the writing skills. Now we are point about a side question related

Besides the opinion of Joe Armstrong about What Joe Armstrong did to be a better programmer? and Joe Armstrong and the Print Statements he also has an interesting opinion about other skills not related to programming but which are such a wonderful tool to have, a very strong nice to have we could say. Seibel:

Following the Joe Armstrong quotes, there is one about the print statements. Seibel: What are the techniques that you use there? Print statements? Armstrong: Print statements. The great gods of programming said, “Thou shalt put printf statements in your program at the point where you think it’s gone wrong, recompile, and run it.” Then there’s—I

Joe Armstrong the co-designer of Erlang was asked about what he did in order to improve as a programmer. Seibel: Is there anything that you have done specifically to improve your skill as a programmer? Armstrong: No, I don’t think so. I learned new programming languages but not with the goal of becoming a better

Continuing the ideas that Joshua Bloch gave us, that has started on this post: Joshua Bloch and his tier list of book here we can see an interesting one: Seibel: Why do people get so religious about their computer languages? Bloch: I don’t know. But when you choose a language, you’re choosing more than a

Joshua Bloch a software engineer related, contributor and (in some way) evangelist of Java has been asking at the time Coders at Work was published about the books of every programmer should read. Seibel: Are there any books that every programmer should read? Bloch: An obvious one, which I have slightly mixed feelings about but

The creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich was asked about the programming languages and the time Seibel: Do you feel at all that programming is a young person’s game? Eich: I think young people have enormous advantages, just physiological advantages to do with the brain. What they don’t have is the wisdom! You get crustier and

The creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich was asked about the programming languages and the time Seibel: In general do you feel like languages are getting better over time? Eich: I think so, yeah. Maybe we’re entering the second golden age; there’s more interest in languages and more language creation. We talk about programming: we need

Douglas Crockford, well known because he was the first person who specified the JSON format was asked about the question of detect the talent in a programmer. Seibel: When you’re hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones? Crockford: The approach I’ve taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate