Well besides being very busy lately I got 3 new books sent to me. Most of you have read them and I am learning quickly that two of these are must have reads for any programmer.

  • Head First Design Patterns
  • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Pragmatic version control using SubVersion
I have started to read Head First design patterns in conjunction with the book I am already reading Object Oriented Analysis and design. I am only 2+ chapters deep in the Design patterns book but for the first time In my short programming career I am learning that the code is secondary to the concept. For all of you noobs out there try to understand what I just said. Learn why you are doing something before the code . I think that is very hard to understand starting out but very very important. I am really excited to get all of these books in and promise to keep you all up to date in my journey. I can already tell the Strategy pattern will play a big role in my development going forward and hope to share my thoughts on that shortly.

 

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