Your Coding Teacher

Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning

Things evaluated during a coding interview: - Analytical skills - Coding skills - Communication skills - Experience - Technical knowledge It's not just coding. But it doesn't mean coding skills are not essential.

Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking

Benefits of Test Driven Development - Confidence to make changes: you've written a nice test suite - Documentation: tests show how to use the code - Force to think about good design: you need to decouple modules in order to unit test them However, it's no panacea

Coding is not about learning programming languages. It is about analyzing a problem, considering different solutions, choosing the best one, and then implementing it in some programming language.

"It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it." - Steve McConnell

Sources of bugs: - Memory allocation char* ptr; cin >> ptr; - Off-by-one int v[5]; for (i=0; i<=5; i++) f(v[i]); - No base case in recursion int fib(int n) { return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2); } - Not updating index in while loop while(i>2){ f(); }