15REAL-WORLD CONSIDERATIONS
Since this book is intended as a companion for someone learning to code, you hopefully know something about software at this point and about the hardware on which it runs as well. You might think that you’re ready to be a programmer. But programming involves more than knowing about hardware and writing code. How do you know what code to write, and how do you go about writing it? How do you know that it works?
Those aren’t the only important questions you face. Can others figure out how to use your code? How easy is it for others to add features or find and fix bugs? How hard is it to make your code run on hardware other ...
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