The Art of Building Modern Software

From APIDesign

Have You Ever Wondered...?

Have you ever considered yourself an artist when coding? Do you think programming is kind of art? Have you noticed the difference in developing software systems today and twenty years ago? Do you know why people consider ugly solutions wrong? If you ever asked questions like this, this chapter gives you answers that I found after many years of oscillating between feeling like an artist and behaving as an engineer.

Have you ever hopelessly searched for new programmers? We do it all the time and it looks like we are constantly running out of good programmers. But how good does a programmer have to be to produce good software? Maybe it is enough if one can code HTML.