Coding Foundations

• Mindset: Habit #7 - 'Sharpen the Saw'

  This habit is straight from the well known book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” by Stephen Covey. To quote wikipedia on his upward spiral approach:

  “In essence, one is always attempting to integrate and master the principles outlined in The 7 Habits at progressively higher levels at each iteration. Subsequent development on any habit will render a different experience and one will learn the principles with a deeper understanding.”

  Our development in any endeavor can be seen in this way. As we learn more in one area, we unlock the potential to grow in others. And round and up the spiral we go.

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  Dec 23, 2021 From last week's Coding Foundations

Coding Foundations — Dec 17, 2021

• Quote: Code is like humor...

• Coding Tactic: Flock Scripts!

• Coding Principle: Practice reshaping ideas with classes and functions

• Mindset: Habit #7 - 'Sharpen the Saw'

Coding Foundations — Dec 10, 2021

• Mindset: Enjoy deleting code

• Coding Principle: Automated Testing

• Coding Tactic: Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Coding Tactic: Dependency Injection

• Featured Book: The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition

Coding Foundations — Dec 3, 2021

• Quote: It is better to solve...

• Featured Event: Advent of Code 2021

• Coding Tactic: Create Reliable Scenarios

• Mindset: Constant Spaced Repetition

• Featured Language: Kotlin

Coding Foundations — Nov 26, 2021

• Quote: Knowledge...

• Mindset: Questions to leverage new knowledge

• Featured Post: Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

• Future of Coding: The Whyline

Coding Foundations — Nov 19, 2021

• Mindset: The language we speak to ourselves

• Coding Principle: Reduce cognitive load

• Coding Tactic: Give all variables a meaningful name

• Design Pattern: Adapter (aka Wrapper)

• Featured Language: Elm

Coding Foundations — Nov 12, 2021

• Quote: On Clean and Beautiful Code

• Coding Tactic: Intention-Revealing Names

• Coding Tactic: Why would you use recursion?

• Featured Post: The Wrong Abstraction

• Founding Visionaries: Douglas Engelbart's The Mother of All Demos (1968)

Coding Foundations — Nov 5, 2021

• Quote: Make it...

• Coding Tactic: Early Returns

• Coding Tactic: Lazy Initialization

• Observation: Else is Optional

• Founding Visionaries: Ivan Sutherland - Sketchpad Thesis (1963)

Coding Foundations — Oct 29, 2021

• Quote: The Most Important Thing

• Mindset: Prioritize Working Software

• Coding Principle: Understandability > Readability > Write-ability

• Coding Tactic: Make Coupling Obvious

• Founding Visionaries: J.C.R. Licklider "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (1960)

Coding Foundations — Oct 22, 2021

• Mindset: Coding is a Tool for Empowerment

• Coding Tactic: Avoid Double Negatives

• Coding Principle: Do the Obvious Thing First

• Resource: Manifesto for Agile Software Development

• Blog Post: A Refactoring Showcase