Software is about people, not code
Software is about people, not code mooreds letters to a new developer January 27, 2020January 5, 2020 1 Minute Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed to know what code to write, how to interface with other code, what was the problem being solved, how to deliver it, the correctness of the code, and how it could be maintained.
- ▪Software is about people, not code mooreds letters to a new developer January 27, 2020January 5, 2020 1 Minute Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code.
- ▪After all, that was the main thing I was working on.
- ▪Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed to know what code to write, how to interface with other code, what was the problem being solved, how to deliver it, the correctness of the code, and how it could be maintained.
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Software is about people, not code mooreds letters to a new developer January 27, 2020January 5, 2020 1 Minute Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed to know what code to write, how to interface with other code, what was the problem being solved, how to deliver it, the correctness of the code, and how it could be maintained. But, the writing the code felt like the most important part of the job. It was certainly the most tangible and fundamental. After all, if the code doesn’t work, all those other things won’t matter, right? This led me to focus on how to write code. I wrote up a style guide for the company.
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