Ebook: Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code

So You Want to Be a Programmer; The Eight Levels of Programmers; How to Write Without Writing; The Vast and Endless Sea; Sharpening the Saw; Go That Way, Really Fast; The Multi-Tasking Myth; The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault; The Best Code is No Code At All; Coding without Comments; Learn to Read the Source, Luke; Rubber Duck Problem Solving; Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas; Can Your Team Pass the Elevator Test?; Performance is a Feature; Why Can't Programmers. Program?; How to Hire a Programmer; Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right; The Years of Experience Myth.;Jeff Atwood began the Coding Horror blog in 2004, and is convinced that it changed his life. He needed a way to keep track of software development over time - whatever he was thinking about or working on. He researched subjects he found interesting, then documented his research with a public blog post, which he could easily find and refer to later. Over time, increasing numbers of blog visitors found the posts helpful, relevant and interesting. Now, approximately 100,000 readers visit the blog per day and nearly as many comment and interact on the site. Effective Programming: More Than Wri.