Not something specifically about software, but a tale that gets to the heart of what we do.
Which fictional story (book, movie, etc.) is the best allegory for software development?
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Lord of the rings: media.giphy.com/media/YZjHGZdwdBMf...
"I Know It When I See It: A Modern Fable About Quality"
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Memento. Every time I return to my code after a meeting: "Now… where was I." Comments are my tattoos. If I get burned by a poorly documented or otherwise badly-behaving library, I try to record it somewhere, but I usually get distracted before I can. Blaming IE (my John G.) for all my front-end problems.
Dresden Files - Harry Dresden is a detective and wizard, He really doesn't know what he's doing and sort of learns as he goes. At times he has great success and then things go to 💩. He is a bit of a loaner but has some really good friends that he can rely on and that help him out.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave and especially the return to the cave is quite applicable to being an software architect thinking and moving in one direction, while the surrounding is thinking he's a mad man.
As for learning to code I always tell my students to "wax on, wax off"...
Maybe Holes?
It has people doing seemingly pointless, repetetive chores without understanding why, management is authoritarian, and the way out is to go back and research the original documentation.
The Blob.
From Wikipedia... "The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite. It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does so, eventually becoming larger than a building."
If that doesn't describe legacy code (where the citizens are developers working on it) then I don't know what else will!
Gulliver's travel, a tale of constantly being out of your depth but survives to go home.
Ex Machinaof course is one of the movies that if you don't have a programming knowledge it wouldn't be interesting to watch