Hacksaw Academy {Blog}

Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance — although not nearly as often as many developers believe — but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.

It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.

Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer, because an engineer is somebody who starts with a social problem that an organization or a society has and says, "OK, here's this problem that we have- how can we solve it?" The engineer comes up with a clever, cost-effective solution to address that problem, builds it, tests it to make sure it solves the problem. That's engineering.

Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind.

Your limitations are largely programming instilled by others that you choose to believe.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

So if you want to go fast, if you want to get done quickly, if you want your code to be easy to write, make it easy to read.

Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a set of functions and data structures.

If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Programming is breaking of one big impossible task into several very small possible tasks.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.