Sunday, March 25, 2007

The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

I found a really great article about "The post is about The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming" by Lamont Adams. Read the article. The ten commandments originally came from a book by Jerry Weinberg called The Psychology of Computer Programming. The commandments are:

  1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes.
  2. You are not your code.
  3. No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more.
  4. Don't rewrite code without consultation.
  5. Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
  6. The only constant in the world is change. Be open to it and accept it with a smile. Look at each change to your requirements, platform, or tool as a new challenge, not as some serious inconvenience to be fought.
  7. The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
  8. Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.
  9. Don't be "the guy in the room."
  10. Critique code instead of people—be kind to the coder, not to the code.

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