Comments on: What programming is

By: Parag R. Kudtarkar

Parag R. Kudtarkar — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:58:42 +0000

I would totally agree …

Guys imagine this.. You program a bomb that goes off at a particular time . But while testing the timer crashes .

Guess who has to go and check what’s wrong with it…..:)

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:55:48 +0000

This is very true. To understand a piece of software you have to model its behavior. When you design a piece of software you have to follow three steps.

1- What the piece of software is expected to do.
2- How you are going to implement it (coding).
3- Why you implementation choice is the right one (test, peer review, mathematical proof).

The first and third steps are the most difficult. Unfortunately most of the software engineers focus on the second because it’s easy and rewarding.

By: James Worthington

James Worthington — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:01:22 +0000

Spoiler: functional programming and type safety?

By: dens

dens — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:58:23 +0000

hey jake – just heard you joined skydeck. rad! hope all is well.

/dens