Meditations on Programming

Meditations on Programming is a growing collection of thoughts that will be most useful to beginners, but which crystallize the thoughts of more experienced developers as well.

In the chaotic, ever-changing and forward-moving world of IT, sometimes you want definite and stable statements. "Meditations on Programming" is our best effort in this, based on more than a decade of working in the industry and analyzing countless projects, companies and people.

You can read "Meditations" in any order.

1. What It Means to Be a Developer
2. Choosing Your Development Tools
3. Knowledge & Experience
4. You Should Improve Your English
5. You Should Write Documentation
6. Programmers & Wealth
7. On Simplicity
8. The Quality vs. The Result Dilemma
9. Searching for a Job
10. Exciting vs. Highly Demanded
11. Learning New Technologies
12. Copying vs. Plagiarism
13. Programming & Maths
14. On Writing
15. The Joy of Programming
16. A Writing Developer vs. an Editing Developer
17. There Are No Dogmas
18. The Humanitarian Developer
19. Fundamental Knowledge
20. Transient Code
21. The Impostor Syndrome