Software Development Gives Poor Thinking Nowhere To Hide

Code has nowhere to hide

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The first draft of anything is shit Ernest Hemingway

Software development involves a lot of talking, estimating, planning and many other activities, which are then followed by a small amount of code.

Code makes your thinking and problem-solving skills visible. You create software and then it's there to be tested and shown to users. If your thinking is faulty, then so is the software you create.

There is no hiding place for bad code and bad software.

Simple code is harder than complex code

“I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.” Mark Twain

• Junior developers write complex code for simple problems
• Senior developers write simple code for complex problems.

Why is easier to write complex code?

It's hard to write about something you don’t understand because you write too many words and confuse the audience. Like people presenting about a topic they don’t understand, they will add every fact in random order, hoping some of those points…