Your Coding Teacher

"Coding is the new literacy" -- Naval Ravikant

When they say "everything in the backlog is a top priority" They really mean "we have no idea what we are doing"

You: "I'll write tests later" Also you: "Why does this software break all the time?"

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath you knows where you live" -- John F Woods

"Let's have another meeting" Said no developer ever

I went from part-time developer to Amazon developer in 3 months of study. What can you achieve in the next three months if you're focused?

"Garbage in, garbage out" does not only apply to the data you feed your programs. It is also true for the data you feed your brain. By reading: - Other people's code - Good books - Whitepapers that explain the design of systems you use You will output better code and systems

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." - David Wheeler

Design patterns in 1 tweet Prototype: have a fully-initialized instance of an object ready for other objects to clone it. Ex: Initial state of a chessboard, that any game can copy (instead of building it for every game).

7 Random coding tips Focus on problem solving Test your code Don't rely on a framework or library Define your career goals Take breaks Recognize your weaknesses Take tasks that scare you

In Python, functions are first-class citizens. Can be passed like any other value For instance: cities.sort(key=lambda c: len(c)) If you need to maintain state, create a class that implements the __call__ method It can be like a function f = myClass() f()

2 ways of creating functions in JavaScript const f = function(x) { return 2*x;} function g(x) { return 2*x;} The difference is that you can use g before it is defined (reading the code from top to bottom), while you cannot use f before it is defined.

"Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption." - Keith Bostic

Synchronous programming (aka Blocking): statements are executed sequentially, in order, one at a time. Asynchronous programming (aka Non-blocking) allows you to run multiple statements simultaneously.

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Basic OOP modelling: - Inheritance: "is-a" relationship. What applies to parent classes also applies to derived classes - Composition: "has-a" relationship. A "car" "is-not-a" a "steering wheel" A "car" "has-a" "steering wheel"

The only way to get good, just like with anything else, is to practice.

Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder

Learn something. Build something.

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess - The Zen of Python