Writers are interesting people. They spend all their time with words. They obsess over the smallest details. They polish and revise. E.B. White onc...
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Great article.
A trick I picked up from writers was to proofread your code backwards when looking for bugs.
It sounds strange, but when proofreading professional writing, reading it backwards changes how the brain processes the information revealing bugs you might otherwise miss.
In this age of over-reliance on tools, many basic concepts of debugging aren't taught or learned hobbling beginners and many alleged "professionals" alike. As such when they butt heads with an issue the tool isn't handling for them the developers end up hobbled by their lack of the basics.
Something as simple as just reading through it backwards instead of blindly hoping that a tool will do the work for you is shockingly effective.
Now that's awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Wow! Great article! I studied a lot of writing-intensive courses in school and once I realized that coding is a lot like writing an essay, short story, article, etc, I became much more confident in my problem-solving abilities. So cool that I am not alone in thinking this way!
Love this quote (and all its different versions). A similar thought comes from Elmore Leonard:
If it's the kind of code I hate to read, then it's not the kind of code I should write.
Writers have so much to teach us developers. And -- lucky for us -- they're good at expressing themselves. After all, that's their job.
Great article Scott. Thank you!
excellent article, thank you!
Great advice straight through!
I do indeed try to live by The Elements of Style. ;)
Thank you for this. Really enjoyed reading this article.
Write what you know, unless you want to write what you don't know.