Stuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by Josh Carter @ Wed, 10...
I could use the help of other writers here. I’m trying to figure out an approach to a chapter which attempts to deal with a monstrously huge topic. If you’ve got a few minutes, please review my...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by UlrichMerkel @ Wed, 10...
Hi Josh,just flipped through your text and found it deserves a more detailed reading (it’s on my list).I paraphrase what I picked up (need your feedback if I’m running in the right direction)IMAGINE a...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by UlrichMerkel @ Wed, 10...
After I had a chance to print your text on my customer’s site (as you will see I’m “old school”: started my life with punch-cards, “paper and pencil” for application modeling and testing and all kind...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by UlrichMerkel @ Wed, 10...
on previous post, I was hit by the formatter, but I think I found an edit which pleases me as well as the formatter (5 attempts).
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by Bob Cochran @ Sat, 13...
Josh,I actually do sit down with new programmers, every now and then. I also sit down with people who claim to be experienced programmers every now and then. And the advice I would give to both sets of...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by Josh Carter @ Sat, 13...
Thanks guys for taking the time to read my long-winded question and respond. Much appreciated!@Uli I like the idea of framing topics as use cases!@Bob The social skills are actually the bulk of my...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by Jared Richardson @ Mon,...
A very quick and light reply… I was taught years ago that if you can’t draw it, you don’t really understand it. When we wrote Ship It!, Andy forced us to draw out the concepts and it was the single...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by Josh Carter @ Mon, 15...
Hi Jared, thanks for the feedback. I use mind maps extensively, and I agree they’re tremendously useful for clarifying the content and structure of a topic. When the mind map feels right, the chapter...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by UlrichMerkel @ Tue, 16...
If you have some time (just joking), have a look at http://www.uli-merkel.de/dito/?areas_%22alive_and_kicking%22%26nbsp%3B:C4C%26nbsp%3Bcourses_for_the_community and the subpages. It’s a collection of...
View ArticleStuck on a topic: essential industry skills posted by UlrichMerkel @ Sun, 21...
Stopped writing eat up my days, got my time back to process my inbox etc.Perhaps a look in http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/chap2.pdfmay give you some inspiration how your book fits into Dreyfus...
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