Part III: Growing Software
My algebra II and trigonometry teacher in high school had taught the same subject (quite possibly in the same room) for over twenty years. His teaching approach was simple: Follow the teacher's manual. It had all the answers in the back, and probably would have fetched a pretty penny on the black market. Every day in class he would work a few sample problems to illustrate each new concept. That's when things went bad.
A blackboard about fifteen feet wide covered the entire front wall of the classroom. He would start solving a problem at the left edge. After a step or two, he always made a simple arithmetic error (something like 2 + 2 = 5), which made the problem ridiculously complicated after a few more steps. He ...
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