Group:
software engineering
Topic:
experimental results on programming
Topic:
extreme programming
Topic:
personal software process (PSP)
Topic:
programmer productivity
Topic:
software management
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Subtopic: math skills 
| Quote: a programmer should have mathematical skills
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Subtopic: language skills
| Quote: a programmer needs language skills to refine program concepts; Dijkstra's first selection criterion [»dijkEW_1982]
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Subtopic: wide variation in description of Turing machine
| Quote: programmers do not agree about the value of a formal descriptive technique [»naurP4_1993]
| | Quote: little agreement about what makes an understandable explanation of Turing's universal computer [»naurP4_1993]
| | Quote: little agreement about the effectiveness of formally complete descriptions of Turing's universal machine
| | Quote: compared notes about Turing's description of his universal machine; large individual differences in style and evaluations [»naurP4_1993]
| | Quote: wide variation in notes for those participants who discovered the errors in Turing's universal computer [»naurP4_1993]
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Subtopic: wide variation in UI skills
| Quote: user interface race revealed dramatic differences in tools and skills, invoked a lively discussion [»shneB_1990]
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Subtopic: wide variation in productivity ;;ýƒšá`ýTopic: programmer productivity
| Quote: experienced programmers vary by an order of magnitude for most performance variables [»sackH_1970]
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Subtopic: personality vs. technique
| Quote: the effectiveness of a particular programming technique depends overwhelmingly on the programmer's personality [»naurP4_1993]
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Subtopic: no wrong results, only bugs
| Quote: programming almost always generates a feeling of success; no wrong results, only bugs [»wertH_1981]
| | Quote: a professional writes clean, flexible code that works, on time; QA should not report lists of bugs [»martRC5_2007]
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Subtopic: planning
| Quote: a good programmer builds an intuitive plan which is proved by the program [»greeTR_1980]
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Subtopic: first programmers
Quote: early programming was a private arcane matter involving a programmer, a problem, a computer, a tiny store, and perhaps a few subroutines and a primitive assembly program; starting over each time, bizarre difficulties, invention, fun
[»backJ_1980]
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Related Topics
Group: software engineering (18 topics, 470 quotes)
Topic: experimental results on programming (75 items)
Topic: extreme programming (6 items)
Topic: personal software process (PSP) (2 items)
Topic: programmer productivity (57 items)
Topic: software management
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