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 Things I Learned the Hard Way: Engineering and Computer Science in the Real World

Speaker: David Parmenter
Date: March 15, 2001
Real Videos (2 Parts): 191 MB , 195 MB

Talk Introduction

In this talk I will discuss my own experiences as a self-taught software engineer, designing and implementing product code from scratch.

I will talk about the parts of computer science which:

• I wish I had known more about
• I have found to be the most useful
• have been of little practical use to me

In addition, I will discuss some of the habits and methods which I consider to be 'sine qua non' in product engineering. Examples include:

• version control
• testing
• build tools
• automation
• bug databases
• keeping up to date
• browsing source code
the good and the bad of using class libraries
• the relationship of the engineer and the business-person

License

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