What Does a Software Developer Do? Career Overview

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until
it’s too late. Image by catalyststuff on Freepik. (Seymour Cray) In software, we rarely have meaningful
requirements. ❤

Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is
whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their
problem is. (Jeff Atwood).

The question of whether computers can think is
like the question of whether submarines can swim. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job. (Jessica
Gaston) It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not
learn from our mistakes, but we also don’t learn from our successes.
(Keith Braithwaite)

Where  👀 friends have access to your
private members. (Gavin Russell Baker) Computer science education cannot
make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and
pigment can make somebody an expert painter. 

Do you like coding or just stealing works?

(Eric Raymond) Measuring
programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft
building progress by weight. (Bill Gates) There is no reason for any
individual to have a computer in his home. (Ken Olson, President,
Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)

Microsoft has a new version
out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable
Windows ever.’ 

To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most
articulate vegetable ever.’ (Dave Barry) One man’s crappy software is
another man’s full-time job. (Jessica Gaston) Windows NT addresses 2
Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.
(Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992) I don’t care if it
works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine! Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of
a job. 

1. Mosher’s Law 
2. Software Engineering
3. Vidiu Platon

The only people who
have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are
worth even less. (David Emery) 

Why to choose Blogger?

It is practically impossible to teach good
programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As
potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
regeneration. (E. W. Dijkstra)

First learn computer science and all the
theory. Next develop a programming style. 

Then forget all that and just
hack. (George Carrette) Java is, in many ways, C++–. (Michael Feldman)
Good programmers use their brains.

But good guidelines save us having to
think out every case. (Francis Glassborow) In software, we rarely have
meaningful requirements. 

Even if we do, the only measure of success that
matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of
what their problem is. (Jeff Atwood) But what is it good for? 

If McDonalds were run like a software
company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food
poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for
two more.’ (Mark Minasi)

It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented
feature. (Anonymous) Considering the current sad state of our computer
programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot
yet be called an engineering discipline. (Bill Clinton) There are only
two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’. (Edward Tufte)