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Hiding in Plain Sight - Confession 38
2014.11.13 15:27:43My first ‘real’ programming language I started with was Java. I used it for many years and I used it a lot. One convention that I never understood well and only forced on myself for the sole reason of it being a convention was the creation of setter and getter methods for fields. It never made sense to me because in most cases I won't do any computations on the fields when they're being set or accessed, so why a method?
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So You Think Programming Is Kind of Neat - Confession 32
2014.09.15 10:37:29That's great! I'm really glad to hear when people show interest in programming. Before you rush into it all though, here's some things to consider.
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Make Your Cake and Eat it Too - Confession 27
2014.08.15 18:59:10Software development is a lot like baking cakes and you always get to eat the cake too! That's really great, except for the fact that you're also building your kitchen at the same time and all the instructions are missing, wrong, incomplete or in some strange language you can't even begin to comprehend. Did I mention that you probably aren't that great of a cook to begin with?