The Art of Software Development

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Argues software development mixes craft with engineering, backed by 15+ years of experience at Picnic, which runs custom warehouse, scheduling and delivery software; advocates automating style and API rules with tools like Google Java Format, Error Prone and OpenRewrite and shows a concrete rule that rewrites negated Optional.isEmpty() to Optional.isPresent() across a codebase; describes a Tech Academy apprenticeship model (mentors + half-time deliberate practice) that accelerates developer skill growth.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:17I'm a software engineer, right?
3. 5:17I'm a computer scientist, right?
4. 9:22You're an artist
5. 12:12Software development = Abstraction
6. 14:37Code aka the truth
7. 28:55Testing
8. 33:24Design/Software architecture
9. 42:45Process
10. 47:06How do we learn this stuff?

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