10 The Programmer🔗

25 September 2024

Questions?

10.1 The Nature of Programming🔗

10-15min

Creators

• sw dev are creators, not brick layers
  – examples of creators

• creators invest ego into their work
  – compare to examples

• criticism (or critique) "hurts the ego"
  what’s the difference to others

Thinkers

• sw dev is a "permanently thinking" profession
  – even if you write code in the 13th PL that you wrote in the first ("sort") pay attention

• thinking happens in our head

• thinking wrong self re-enforces; too much wrong thinking produces brittle products

• only other thinking beings can truly understand our thinking; AI can’t

How to Work with Thinking Creators

• social component

• psychological component

Today’s focus is our psychplogy.

10.2 Egoless Programming🔗

15-25min

How to cope with negative feedback:

• the idea

• mind set
  the story of the programmer who was happy to find more mistakes in his 10 lines of code

• balance "ego" and "disinvestment"

Stop, Drop, and Think

• coding

• attitude

• life

10.3 Pair Programming🔗

15-25min

• why: thinking with a partner

• what it really is: F 1 occasionally teaches “split work and combine”

• how it helps a company: contributors, no hero programmers

• managing up: We know that it’s rarely done because managers don’t get it. Think and speak “manager.”

• the book: Williams and Kesler

Total: 40–65 mins