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by Verdex_2 3308 days ago
Yeah, I like the way you're going. I haven't spent much time thinking about how to fit in software engineering, but I did try to think about how to structure programming issues (which is probably the first step if you want to eventually get to a software engineering).

https://www.sep.com/sep-blog/2017/04/25/objective-code-quali...

It's missing a conclusion / wrapping it all up (which hopefully I can get to soonish), but is otherwise mostly done. [I should probably augment it with motivations and examples.] I'm not sure that this is the definitive answer, but more like this is my attempt to structure some of the things I've been encountering.

EDIT: Sorry about the length. I'm not sure there's a good way to shorten these sorts of ideas.

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Interesting! I'm on "Problem Analysis: High Dimensional Spaces" so far. I'll probably just leave a comment there if I end up with something to say since we'll probably drift too far off topic if continuing here ;)

Edit: I finished but couldn't find a way of leaving a comment on your blog. I thought it was an interesting read—but yep, definitely needs that conclusion! Hard to say much without that. Is your goal to use the ideas to create a new metric for how difficult a code base is to work with?