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Is Writing More Important than Programming? Jeff Atwood codinghorror.com
 
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The Mythical 5% (Bruce Eckel) Talk at Yale (Joel Spolsky)
 
 
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What are you gonna  do  with your life? Twisted Sister “ We’re Not Gonna Take It”  1984
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Not starting sooner.
 
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It doesn’t matter what you’ve done if nobody knows about it.
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So I QUIT
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You’re young. Take insane risks. Work for a SOFTWARE company. Life is too short to stay at a soul-sucking job.
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Move where the best jobs are.
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I am not an exceptional programmer.
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[object Object],10  i = 0 20  i = i + 1 30  if i / 15 = int(i / 15) 40  print &quot;FizzBuzz&quot; 50  elseif i / 5 = int(i / 5) 60  print &quot;Buzz&quot; 70  elseif i / 3 = int(i / 3) 80  print &quot;Fizz&quot; 90  else 100  print i 110 endif 120 if i < 101 130  goto 20 140 else 150  quit
Enthusiasm is more important than talent.
 
 
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You can become a better programmer by not programming.
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Start a blog.
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You can do what I’ve done.
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Thank you. Jeff Atwood codinghorror.com

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Is Writing More Important Than Programming

Notes de l'éditeur

  1. What’s the point of the blog.
  2. Dr. Zhivago
  3. Still need a basic skill level
  4. Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print &amp;quot;Fizz&amp;quot; instead of the number and for the multiples of five print &amp;quot;Buzz&amp;quot;. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print &amp;quot;FizzBuzz&amp;quot;.
  5. Number of people in the world who speak English well enough to edit Wikipedia and who have access to the internet. (This includes non-native speakers. It omits potential contributors to non English-language wikipedias only because this bar is already absurdly tall. (Okay, and because wikipedias of seperate languages are, to some degree, islands, and don&apos;t function as a cohesive whole.))
  6. Measurable net positive influence on the world.
  7. It’s not that your code wasn’t good enough