Discussion on: The Four Layers of Programming Skills

[Blaine Osepchuk]

Great list; nice decomposition.

The there might be another level out there that includes skills like:

• communicating with the users
• project management
• feature prioritization
• user interface design
• engineering trade offs between various project characteristics (readability, maintainability, robustness, correctness, fault-tolerance, etc.)
• life cycle considerations
• testing