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by asalazar
4992 days ago
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I think the problem is that the "right" way is completely subjective. Is Spring "bad" and Scala "good"? Depends on what you're building and for who. Overall, the best way to be a great developer (not just a good coder) is to:
1) Build a strong theoretical foundation. The curriculum of any top tier CS program is a good starting point. Check out Intro to Algorithms http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme... 2) Stay on top of new technologies and models. Read Hacker News, Read Reddit, Follow notables on Twitter. Check out @lhazlewood 3) research, debate, practice, implement, review |
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I'm looking for a highly acclaimed open source project, or developer, that most people agree is a good example. Some sort of a "developers academy" that gives awards for "best design" "most elegant code" etc. like the Oscars. then people can follow the practices. Sadly, at the moment, these things are not taught in school, or anywhere. If I want to learn making movies, I know exactly what movies to analyse, for coding, I have no clue, there is no guarantee that a popular github project is also well written, it just might be doing its thing right. I hope I managed to point the problem, and I think as a community, we should build some standards that are cross language and framework, and maintained and evolve with time. e.g. the "good code principles, with examples, certified by top 1000 in stackoverflow, 20 YC CTOs, 10 professors from Stanford, 20 R&D managers from the enterprise world, and 1000 top hackers on hacker news. crazy, but this is exactly the film academy, isn't it?