The 5 Surprising Lessons I Learned About Developing Software
Many of the things I thought I knew about writing software were not only wrong, but often the exact opposite of the truth.
As a young developer, I was certain about several things.
I thought that writing code was the hardest part about being a software developer, that it didn't really matter what I named things, and that eking a few milliseconds of performance out of a procedure justified sacrificing readability.
It turns out I was wrong about all of those things.
Mike's Lessons Learned
- It's harder to read code than to write it.
- Writing code is the easiest part of developing software.
- It requires more skill to maintain an existing application than to write one from scratch.
- Readability trumps performance 99% of the time.
- Naming is hard.
