Code Craft

What’s In It for Me?

Programming is your passion. It’s sad, but it’s true. As a hardcore techie, you practically program in your sleep. Now you’re in the heart of the Real World, deep in the industry, doing what you could never imagine: being paid to play with computers. The truth is, you’d have paid someone for the privilege.

But this is an odd place, not what you were expecting at all. Surprised by the incursion of unrealistic deadlines and bad management (if management is what they call it), of shifting requirements and a legacy of awful code, you’re left wondering if this is really it. The world is conspiring to prevent you from writing the code you always dreamed of. Welcome to life in the software factory. You’re on the front line of a tough ...