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by lazyant 2186 days ago
The gap between writing code ("programming") and producing software that is going to be available after a while, in a team ("software engineering") is maintainability.
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Where maintainability is composed of documentation, version-control, testing, building, issue tracking, soft management, automating all of the above, adhering to conventions even if they are crazy, and more. All are non-trivial but won't be gleaned from your average programming course.

The article brushes with some of these but misses the mark overall.