1 To the streets
This chapter covers
- The realities of the streets
- Who is a street coder?
- The problems of modern software development
- How to solve your problems with street lore
I am lucky. I wrote my first program in the 1980s. It only required me to turn on the computer, which took less than a second, write 2 lines of code, type RUN, and voila! The screen was suddenly filled with my name. I was immediately awestruck by the possibilities. If I could do this with 2 lines, imagine what I could do with 6 lines, or even 20 lines! My nine-year-old brain was flooded with so much dopamine that I was addicted to programming at that instant.
Today, software development is immensely more complex. It’s nowhere close to the simplicity of the 1980s, when ...
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