programming.md

Programming

• Software Testing Anti-patterns
• Exceptions
• Guide: Writing Testable Code
• Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in
• Design Patterns for Humans

Some other wisdom

• duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction
  • https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
• Refactoring = code transformation based on what you’ve learnt from the past
• Over-engineering = code transformation based on the speculation for the future
  • https://twitter.com/tjaskula/status/977867361817694209?s=12
• Comments should describe things that are not obvious from code
• Zen of Python
  • Explicit is better than implicit.
  • Although practicality beats purity.
  • Errors should never pass silently, unless explicitly silenced.
  • There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
  • If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
  • If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.