[Year 12 SofDev] A neat site

[Tim Kottek]

A neat quote,

I think that "Rapid Application Design" RAD is what is described below, at
least in spirit. Works well in the right environment.

Cheers

Tim
0425 777 230 Land line 03 5261 9354
tim at experiencetorquay.com.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kelly [mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:35 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] A neat site

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

Joel Spolsky is a programmer with a down-to-earth, sensible philosophy
about programming and business.  Well worth a read.

e.g.

"A good way to defend yourself against [clients demanding hundreds of
changes to code you believed was finished] is to deliver lots and lots
of interim versions to the client: real, working interim versions, and
get them using it so you can build feedback into future iterations.
Rather than going off in a cave and building something for a year, only
to find out that 9 months of that work is wasted, you show the client
something every month, say, and get instant feedback and then you adjust
directions if needed. That's one thing that many people waving the
"agile" flag are talking about. The first delivery should be the minimum
thing that could possibly be useful.

This should not be seen as an excuse to write code without designing it,
first. All code is going to be designed eventually. But if you try to
design it first in a programming language, the designing process is
vastly slower than if you were designing it with pencil and paper and
descriptive paragraphs in the English language, so you're wasting time."

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