alt Hacker NewsAny software developer who hasn’t read _The Practice of Programming_ by Kernighan and Pike should. It’s not that long and much of it is timeless.
Any software developer who hasn’t read _The Practice of Programming_ by Kernighan and Pike should. It’s not that long and much of it is timeless.
Yeah, but I doubt many of the newer generation are going to read this. I manage a team of engineers, and one of the recent-ish graduates asked me in our 1-on-1 if it's still worth learning Python given that he can just write prompts. (Python is the language all our tools use).
If the next generation doesn't even want to learn a programming language, they're definitely not going to learn how to write _clean_ code.
Maybe I'm just overly pessimistic about junior engineers at the moment because of that conversation lol.