Is This Why You’re Bad At Programming?

What are the bad programming habits that make bad software? What are the common excuses that programmers make for writing software that is worse than it needs to be? What are the common software developer mistakes that people make? In this episode, Dave Farley describes the common excuses that developers make for doing a worse job and describes his software engineering approach to how we can debunk mythology and lazy thinking in software. So if you are a junior software developer or any software developer who strives to do a great job, take a look and see if you have any of these bad habits, and listen to Dave’s advice on how best to avoid them, or maybe show where Dave is wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further Reading: Dave's Blog Post on Pair Programming ➡️ https://www.davefarley.net/?p=214 ‘The Case for Collaborative Programming’ Nosek 1998 ➡️ http://bit.ly/1J6LrAP ‘Strengthening The Case for Pair Programming’ Williams, Kessler, Cunningham & Jeffries 2000 ➡️ http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/lau... ‘Pair Programming is about Business Continuity‘ Dave Hounslow ➡️ http://bit.ly/1Pk0JFW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📚 BOOKS: 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is now available on Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a durable, coherent and foundational approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience. 📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines 📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx NOTE: If you click on one of the Amazon Affiliate links and buy the book, Continuous Delivery Ltd. will get a small fee for the recommendation with NO increase in cost to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also from Dave: 🎓 CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses ➡️ https://bit.ly/DFTraining 📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events and online courses. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MailListCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANNEL SPONSORS: Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Harness helps engineers and developers simplify and scale CI/CD, Feature Flags and Cloud Cost Management with an AI-powered platform for software delivery. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Cfx3qI Octopus are the makers of Octopus Deploy the single place for your team to manage releases, automate deployments, and automate the runbooks that keep your software operating. ➡️ https://octopus.com/ SpecFlow Behavior Driven Development for .NET SpecFlow helps teams bind automation to feature files and share the resulting examples as Living Documentation across the team and stakeholders. ➡️ https://go.specflow.org/dave_farley