我正在对初级(也许是高级)软件工程师所犯的常见错误和错误假设进行一些研究。

你坚持时间最长、最终被纠正的假设是什么?

例如,我误解了整数的大小不是标准的,而是取决于语言和目标。说起来有点尴尬,但事实就是这样。

坦率地说;你有什么坚定的信念?你大概坚持了多长时间?它可以是关于一种算法、一种语言、一个编程概念、测试,或者任何关于编程、编程语言或计算机科学的东西。


当前回答

我是一个优秀的程序员!

其他回答

不熟悉SQL和关系数据库的过程开发人员/程序员不需要任何正式的培训,也不需要了解如何使用SQL,快速阅读SQL For Dummies之类的东西就足以使用像Oracle和SQL Server这样的关系数据库。

在处理存储在关系数据库(如Oracle和SQL Server)中的数据的应用程序中,许多错误往往是由于缺乏对关系数据库语言的理解或如何使用造成的;SQL。

I used to work for a software vendor who had the mentality that all a developer needed was the SQL For Dummies book or something similiar and they would be fully equipped to handle any relational database issue. Now that the clients of this vendor have databases measuring in hundreds of gigabytes this lack of SQL knowledge is coming back around in a negative way. It's not just bad performing lookups and or updates and inserts that are a problem but the actual design of the database itself that is the real obstacle.

如果当时开发主管能够像对待他们构建应用程序所用的语言那样对待SQL和关系数据库,那么所有这些都是可以避免的,而且成本也会低得多。

不要认为SQL不重要,因为它最终会回来困扰你。你可能可以在一段时间内摆脱它,甚至几年,但你最终会达到一个断点,在没有完全重新设计数据库的情况下,你无法继续前进,那是成本最高的时候。

那是朝九晚五的工作

我一直认为,任何为任何语言编写任何代码的人都会使用编辑程序。

I was working with a client of mine who had me on mostly as support and to write some of the more complex things for him. Well one day he messed up a file, big time. He accidentally saved over three hours worth of his own work, and when I asked him why he didn't save more often he replied with, "because I wasn't done". Naturally, this was not an acceptable answer, and I poked and prodded a little further. I eventually came to find out that he he has never used any editing program, EVER! Not even notepad.exe! He had been using an online CPanel editor for files! It didn't even have a 'Find' function. He couldn't ever save until he was done because he was editing the live file on the site!

不用说,我很惊讶,他至今仍在使用CPanel编辑器……

当主流设计模式在计算机科学课上被引入时,我认为它们很棒。在此之前,我有8年的编程经验,对于如何创建好的抽象概念,我真的没有扎实的理解。

设计模式就像魔法一样;你可以做一些很棒的事情。后来我发现了函数式编程(通过Mozart/Oz、OCaml、后来的Scala、Haskell和Clojure),然后我明白了许多模式只是样板,或者额外的复杂性,因为语言表达能力不够。

当然,几乎总是有某种模式,但它们在表达性语言中处于更高的层次。现在我一直在用Java进行一些专业编码,当我不得不使用访问者或命令模式等惯例而不是模式匹配和更高阶函数时,我真的感到很痛苦。

ASCII以不同于二进制的方式存储