Comments on: ObjectMentor as a Reference For Pragmatic Programmers http://www.techraving.com/2009/02/12/objectmentor-as-a-reference-for-pragmatic-programmers/ An Opinion is a Terrible Thing To Waste Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:59:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Pete Wright http://www.techraving.com/2009/02/12/objectmentor-as-a-reference-for-pragmatic-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-899 Pete Wright Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:17:10 +0000 http://www.techraving.com/?p=230#comment-899 It is a great site, and Bob Martin's books "Principles, Patterns, and Practices", and "Clean Code" are seminal works. The industry recently has made a disturbing shift towards syntactic knowledge as a measure of competence. Knowing the ins-and-outs of your development language and the tools you work with do absolutely NOT make you a good programmer. Nor does knowing how to Google for stuff to bolt together to give an illusion of progress. Journeyman programmers are passionate about the theory, and inherent beauty of software, regardless of the tools used to produce, and that's something the ObjectMentor guys have down cold. It is a great site, and Bob Martin’s books “Principles, Patterns, and Practices”, and “Clean Code” are seminal works.

The industry recently has made a disturbing shift towards syntactic knowledge as a measure of competence. Knowing the ins-and-outs of your development language and the tools you work with do absolutely NOT make you a good programmer. Nor does knowing how to Google for stuff to bolt together to give an illusion of progress.

Journeyman programmers are passionate about the theory, and inherent beauty of software, regardless of the tools used to produce, and that’s something the ObjectMentor guys have down cold.

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