BillieCodes reviewed Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
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5 stars
There's a large number of studies on how the brain works, and how people learn. This book brings together these studies and suggests techniques and gives you tools to directly apply that learning to programming and software development.
It's worth noting that is does this without diving into agile, or CI/CD. This book is purely about code and the brains that it is understood in, which is refreshing.
I came to this book because I recently realised that not everyone finds naming variables so easy, and are there strategies I can recommend, which are based in some sort of science (which now that I type that out sounds pretty nieche).
What got me really excited though were the strategies for improving chunking and minimising my own cognative load when approaching understanding existing codebases.
If you don't know about the science of how our brains work when you are coding, want …
There's a large number of studies on how the brain works, and how people learn. This book brings together these studies and suggests techniques and gives you tools to directly apply that learning to programming and software development.
It's worth noting that is does this without diving into agile, or CI/CD. This book is purely about code and the brains that it is understood in, which is refreshing.
I came to this book because I recently realised that not everyone finds naming variables so easy, and are there strategies I can recommend, which are based in some sort of science (which now that I type that out sounds pretty nieche).
What got me really excited though were the strategies for improving chunking and minimising my own cognative load when approaching understanding existing codebases.
If you don't know about the science of how our brains work when you are coding, want to make your own code more understanable, or want strategies in how to understand a complex unfamiliar codebase quickly, then this book is a must read!
The references are great sources too. Discovered a number of new studies I hadn't read yet, which is always a nice surprise.