There has been the rumor of computer scientists being lazy! wow wow wow hold on there that's outrageous is what we, as beautiful young minds interested in pursuing this beautiful world (I mean Comp Sci of course), would say to this!
But between me and you, aren't we really? I wanted to postpone starting the SLOG so much but I need 8% so here I was reading through the blogs posted about why geeks need to know how to write and I was talking to myself : "man there are a lot of better thing to do right now, I an go work on my A1 code".
Then it hit me! I was reading about Mark D's experience on debugging and I thought about all the time that I would sit before this lap top and just look at my code without even blinking just to find that hard to find tiny error which might turn out to be such a simple thing like a typo or maybe a conceptual thing.
We are computer scientists! We might not care about a lot of things other people do! But Damn it we care about our code and our code is a part of us! So I won't be lazy when It comes to my code! and I know you if you are a true CS dude or gal won't be either! keep track of your maybe in a blog, or maybe in a notebook, you will learn from mistakes, you will fix your code faster, and hey! you get more t
time on your hands and you can sleep the rest of the day instead of looking at that code that does not run.
But between me and you, aren't we really? I wanted to postpone starting the SLOG so much but I need 8% so here I was reading through the blogs posted about why geeks need to know how to write and I was talking to myself : "man there are a lot of better thing to do right now, I an go work on my A1 code".
Then it hit me! I was reading about Mark D's experience on debugging and I thought about all the time that I would sit before this lap top and just look at my code without even blinking just to find that hard to find tiny error which might turn out to be such a simple thing like a typo or maybe a conceptual thing.
We are computer scientists! We might not care about a lot of things other people do! But Damn it we care about our code and our code is a part of us! So I won't be lazy when It comes to my code! and I know you if you are a true CS dude or gal won't be either! keep track of your maybe in a blog, or maybe in a notebook, you will learn from mistakes, you will fix your code faster, and hey! you get more t
time on your hands and you can sleep the rest of the day instead of looking at that code that does not run.
There are some obvious reasons why you should start blogging when you are a programmer. Most of them also apply to everybody else:
- You share your knowledge. This is a benefit for all of us. If everybody would be blogging about all the little issues they had then a Google-Search would help us even more. I am sure nearly every problem in the world is already solved. It is just not written down.
- It’s a kind of self marketing. A potential employer can get a much better picture of your abilities than he could from CVs or references. When I hire somebody it is already a huge plus for him when he has a blog at all.
- Explaining things to other people is the best way to learn. You can only teach what you fully understand. This is at least as efficient as hands on experience.
Programming is doing something weird to your brain. When you write a piece of documentation right after a programming session the result is likely to be barely readable for human beings.
