Brit 🇬🇧 living in Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴
Mathematics graduate 🎓 and previous Senior Business Analyst.
The pandemic finally pushed me to learn to code and I haven't looked back 🤓
Location
Cali, Colombia
Education
First Class Honours degree in Mathematics with Spanish from the University of Sheffield
I just started reading The Pragmatic Programmer today to try and help me improve my practice. I really liked this quote:
"Programming is a craft. At its simplest, it comes down to getting a computer to do what you want it to do (or what your user wants it to do). As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator. You try to capture elusive requirements and fin a way of expressing them so that a mere machine can do them justice. You try to document your work so that others can understand it, and you try to engineer your work so that others can build on it. What's more, you try to do all this against the relentless ticking of the project clock. You work small miracles every day."
I picked up the Pragmatic Programmer audiobook so that I could listen for a few minutes each morning. Programming as a craft is a major takeaway. The long form anologies in the book (Broken Window , Stone Soup, etc) stick with you.
Brit 🇬🇧 living in Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴
Mathematics graduate 🎓 and previous Senior Business Analyst.
The pandemic finally pushed me to learn to code and I haven't looked back 🤓
Location
Cali, Colombia
Education
First Class Honours degree in Mathematics with Spanish from the University of Sheffield
I just started reading The Pragmatic Programmer today to try and help me improve my practice. I really liked this quote:
"Programming is a craft. At its simplest, it comes down to getting a computer to do what you want it to do (or what your user wants it to do). As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator. You try to capture elusive requirements and fin a way of expressing them so that a mere machine can do them justice. You try to document your work so that others can understand it, and you try to engineer your work so that others can build on it. What's more, you try to do all this against the relentless ticking of the project clock. You work small miracles every day."
That book changed me for the better.
I would really love to read this book, I have heard a lot about it. But sadly it isn't available in my country.
I picked up the Pragmatic Programmer audiobook so that I could listen for a few minutes each morning. Programming as a craft is a major takeaway. The long form anologies in the book (Broken Window , Stone Soup, etc) stick with you.
Yes definitely! I loved the analogy of the Broken Window, made a lot of sense!