Chapter 9. Back to Basics
We want to do everything we must do to have stable, predictable software development. But we don't have time for anything extra. The four basic activities of development are coding, testing, listening, and designing.
"Learning to Drive." Four values—communication, simplicity, feedback, and courage. A double handful of principles. Now we are ready to start building a discipline of software development. The first step is to decide on the scope. What is it that we will try to prescribe? What sorts of problems will we address and what sorts of problems will we ignore?
I remember when I first learned to program in BASIC. I had a couple of workbooks covering the fundamentals of programming. I went through them pretty quickly. ...
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