professional programmers

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Keeping score in test-driven development with Python, PyLint, un...

Linux Today  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:33

Free Software Magazine: "Programming is more fun when you keep score. The extreme programming (XP) development model popularized the idea of test-driven development (TDD) with professional programmers in mind.

But TDD turns out to be even more useful for lone amateur programmers, because it provides much needed motivation in the form of more visible rewards for your work."


 

Stefan Mischook's Blog: What makes a professional programmer?

PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 08/12/2009 - 06:52

In this new post to his KillerPHP blog Stefan Mischook takes a quick look at professional programming and what separates professional programmers out from the rest.


 

Programming Made "Simple"

Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:36

The Simple programming language is a BASIC dialect for the Android platform highly influenced by Microsofts's pre-dot-NET Visual Basic.

In the 90s, a big company from up north was extremely successful with a dialect of the programming language BASIC (acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code).

One of the reasons it was so successful was that the language was easy to learn and use.