Chapter 31. Project Retrospective

It is time to assess the XML Notepad project, considering what we would do again next time and what we would do differently.

Learning from the Past

We can do many things to learn our craft. We can go to school, read books, take courses, talk with people, and so on. All of these can give us ideas and techniques that can improve our programming. However, the most important thing of all, in my opinion, is reflective practice. We have to use the techniques we read about, and we have to reflect on the results. In the course of this book, we have reflected frequently on how things are going and we have even tried things different ways and thought about that. Now let’s look back at the whole XML Notepad project to see ...

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