Engineering You

by Martin Thompson (45min)

Notes

16:20 What should software engineers learn?

• Algorithms & Data Structure
• Design Fundamentals
• Programming Paradigms
• Decomposition & Abstraction
• Mathematics
• Business Domains
• Communications

30:00 From where can software engineers learn?

• Personal Practice
• People & Teams
• Research Papers
• Reading Code
• Projects — Tackle Unknowns First
• Online Resources

35:06 How can software engineers learn?

• Automate Repetitive Tasks
• Focus on Feedback Cycles
• Experimentation
• Measure
• Apply Scientific Honesty
• Revisit & Refine
• “What can go wrong?”

It does not matter how intelligent you are, if you guess and that guess cannot be backed up by experimental evidence, then it is still a guess.