Show Notes
John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-design Topics include: - What does software complexity look like? - How do we identify complexity before it develops? - The importance of continuous refactoring - What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity - How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford - What John thinks of agile ...
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