Software development is my passion. I love creating code, brooding over algorithms, learning new languages or frameworks and just about everything that is related to it.
Having started to code on the C64 more than 20 years ago I can savely assume that I know a lot about the process and the required mindset for coding.
And it's exactly that mindset that I miss in a lot of coders that come out of university.
It's not there fault. Universities tend to just teach the tools, like a programming language or UML, skipping the essential basics.
I don't want to get started on how much I think it is wrong to start coding with a language like java.
What I want to get started on is the basic set of principles and rules that should be the mantras of every developer and most engineers.
So this article marks the beginning of a small series about what I think are essential rules to follow to become a good coder.
In the series I will cover the following things:
Divide and Conquer
Premature optimization is the death of software
Separation of concerns
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