Developing Developers

How to train software developers to become software crafts(wo)men.

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1. Developing Developers Ivan Zimine ivan@odd-e.com
2. 1 Developing Developers
3. 2 Juggling 101
4. 3 20 years ago… me X
6. 5 1995: delphi, C 1996: html (CERN) 1997: IDL, sh/ksh/tsch, emacs 1998-2010: IDL, C/C++, bash, perl, python, latex, vim 2010-2016: python, numpy et al 2016-now: python, ruby, js, java, kotlin Programming experience
7. 6 Lucky, educated and clueless https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
8. 7 “ Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” — Hal Abelson In theory, theory and practice are the same…
9. 8 http://www.wlgf.org/wlg_intro.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SchlossVillandryGarten02.jpg
10. BT/AT
11. Part II Rewiring brains
13. “For an idea to go from someone’s head into the computer it must go through someone else’s hands” — Llewellyn Falco
15. TDD vs BDD people…
19. 18 problem language/ technique editor/ environment
21. 20 print diamond $ diamond C A B B C C B B A $ diamond B A B B A
22. 21 print diamond A BBB CCCC BBB A A B B C C B B A A BAB CBABC BAB A X X X X X X X X C B B A A B B C X X*X X***X X*X X
23. 22 hello FizzBuzz
24. 23 hello FizzBuzz
25. Try several new things at the same time Let naive and/or disruptive people in Practice regularly Do it in a group Allow others to surprise you Retrospect tips for practice sessions
29. 28 Ack
30. 29 Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming Thank you ivan@odd-e.com