Are Storytellers The Best Programmers?
July 7, 2010 at 9:53 pm 1 comment
I’ve had this article sitting in my queue to write about for quite awhile. On the one hand, “storytelling” misses the careful Engineering-like attention to detail that is necessary to code well. On the other hand, “storytelling” is a form of self-explanation that relates to Darrin’s recent comment about how important that’s been for him in his experience as a professional software developer.
“As for learning how to code, I think good storytellers make the best programmers. I used to freak prospective employees out by having them write a story for me instead of the “what’s wrong with this code?” tests. But it showed me who was able to think well, organized, creatively, and filled in the details.”
via Are Storytellers The Best Programmers?.
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Alfred Thompson | July 7, 2010 at 9:59 pm
I wrote a blog post about this a while back – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/archive/2010/05/06/program-me-a-story.aspx Too long to repost as a comment here.