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Understanding Software

You're reading from   Understanding Software Max Kanat-Alexander on simplicity, coding, and how to suck less as a programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788628815
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Table of Contents FREE CHAPTER
2. Understanding Software
3. Credits
4. About the Author
5. www.PacktPub.com
6. Customer Feedback
7. Foreword
8. One. Principles for Programmers 9. Two. Software Complexity and its Causes 10. Three. Simplicity and Software Design 11. Four. Debugging 12. Five. Engineering in Teams 13. Six. Understanding Software 14. Seven. Suck Less 15. Index

Chapter 38. Developer Hubris

Your program is not important to me. I don't care about its user interface. I don't care what its name is. I don't care that you made it, or what version it is.

The only thing I care about is that your program helps me accomplish my purpose. That's a truly remarkable feat, and if your program does it, you should be proud. There's no need to make your program take up more of my attention just because you think it's important.

Now of course, your program is important to you! When you work on code for a long time, it's easy to become attached to it. It was so hard to write. Your cleverness is unbounded, shadowing lesser mortals in the mountain of your intellect. You have overcome some of the greatest mental obstacles man has ever faced. Truly, you must shout this from the tops of every tower, through the streets of every city, and even unto the caves of the Earth. But don't.

Because your users do not care. Your fellow...

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