Over the last 38 years in computers, I have seen lots of things. Some fantastic, some catastrophic, and some just downright silly. I was thinking about this the other day, and realised that in all my time working with other programmers and analysts I had never seen a consistently workable technology of computer programming. At least, not one that was easily teachable to someone just entering into the field of computer programming.
So I decided to write a real primer for real programmers. One that consists of techniques and tips that are uniformly workable to any computer language on any platform. There is a lot of rubbish and false data promoted under the guise of “the right way to do it”. If there ever was a programming mistake that could have been made, or a bug introduced where it could have been avoided, then I have surely done it. They say that experience is what you get, right after you needed it. That makes me a very experienced programmer.
So I feel I have a responsibility to write it all down for all the newbies and not so newbies in the field so that my hard won experience is not wasted. If anything I write down can save someone else just an hour of their time, then it will be worth it. If you can learn from someone else’s mistakes then you should be able to get a doctorate on mine!
I will keep you posted of the progress on this and other things that I am working on during my waking hours.