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· Krehbiel Tech · Thursday, Feb 28, 2008, 7:29 PM · 388 words · 
I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer, supposedly one of the Bibles for modern programmers. It came highly recommended by one of my favorite blogs, Coding Horror. (Well, it used to be highly recommended... I'd swear there were only two books on his recommended reading list before.) Anyway, it's a good book so far. It's easy to read and contains lots of good tips, although a lot of the advice is common sense practices you pick up through experience anyway. But it's cool to have it all in one book. Great for someone starting out, I would think.
Rodrigo Diaz Concha said,
Hey Thomas! Great thoughts. Just to clarify my Forum Participation topic. The idea behind that is when you see a question that you know how to solve it, you can write the code or whatever it's needed in order to solve it; so it allows you to reproduce the problem scenario and solve it yourself and obtain a significative learning about the other's problem. I really wasn't thinking about reading other's answers (cause as a matter of fact they're sometimes wrong as you pointed out), but doing it yourself.
Thank you very much for your ideas and comments! :D
Rodrigo Diaz Concha
Caio Proiete said,
Hello Krehbiel,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!!
For some reason, I didn't receive any trackback from your post, and only discovered it now, thanks to Google Analytics. Pity!
I think you made a good point on highlighting the communication skills improvement you get from writing and presenting technical stuff, and I actually agree with you.
But... If you read carefully what I wrote in my post, I don't think you get a better developer by presenting or writing stuff. What I believe is that you do get a better developer when you are PREPARING yourself to do such things.
As an MCT for the last four years, I really believe I become a better developer every time I have to prepare myself to teach a developer training such as C#, SQL Server, etc...
Thanks!
Caio Proiete
Caio Proiete said,
Hello Krehbiel, Thanks for sharing your thoughts!!
For some reason, I didn't receive any trackback from your post, and only discovered it now, thanks to Google Analytics. Pity!
I think you made a good point on highlighting the communication skills improvement you get from writing and presenting technical stuff, and I actually agree with you.
But... If you read carefully what I wrote in my post, I don't think you get a better developer by presenting or writing stuff. What I believe is that you do get a better developer when you are PREPARING yourself to do such things.
As an MCT for the last four years, I really believe I become a better developer every time I have to prepare myself to teach a developer training such as C#, SQL Server, etc...
Thanks! Caio Proiete