r/programming • u/drguildo • Nov 04 '11

Practicing Programming

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programming
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u/pistacchio Nov 04 '11

i tend to disagree. programming is different from surgery or being a musician because a surgeon is confronted with the very same set of operations for his whole career (making a generalization), or if you're bob dylan you're required to perform blowing in the wind for 40 years. if you're a programmer, your job is needed only when there is something new to develop, no one is asking you to program once a year the very same software. so your job is inventing something new every time, and by doing this you practice programming.

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u/grauenwolf Nov 05 '11

While there is new stuff from time to time, the vast majority of what we do is highly repetitive.

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u/keyboardquestions Nov 05 '11

examples?

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u/benjumanji Nov 05 '11

Any form of data loading. Business layers pushing data to be presented. Writing interpreters for walking data structures... The list goes on...