I'm currently enjoying "Coders at Work
- Reflections on the Craft of Programming", by Peter Seibel.
It's a series of reflective interviews
with various guru progammers. There's a few recurring questions which
I thought might be fun for the monks to answer.
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Are there books every programmer should read?
Have you read The Art of of Computer Programming by Knuth?
Cover to cover? (books)
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Have you tried literate programming?
Have you ever proved your code correct? (literate/proofs)
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To what degree is mathematics and mathematical thought
important to programming?(maths)
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How to you get familiar with a substantial piece of someone else's code?
Do you step through it?
Have you read code for fun? What?
(code reading)
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How do you prepare to code something new? How do you actually
begin coding, top-down, bottom-up, tests, interfaces..?
(new code)
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What makes a good programmer?
If you are hiring programmers, what do you look for?
(hiring)
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Have the skills changed required to be a good programmer changed?
Are there key skills programmers must have?
(skills)
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Do you think of yourself as a scientist, engineer, craftsman, artist
or something else?
(scientist..)
There's lot's more to ask, but I'll stop there
Update: added labels, just the numbers was confusing.
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