Habitually Good

Scott Hansleman caused me to right this post (by writing a post by the same title). Here are my 3 learnings:

3 things I learned in College

• Three best books in the world are “The C Programming Language” by K&R, “The Art of Computer Programming 1″ by Donald Knuth, and “Object Oriented Analysis & Design” by Grady Booch.
• Everything in the world is an instance of a Class.
• The best time to begin an assignment/project is the night before it’s due

3 things I learned out of College

• You will never have time to give your best quality output, so you need to be able to tell what is good enough for a given requirement.
• A formal education in Computer Science does help while designing/creating software (a lot of people in India get into the software industry even if they don’t have a Computer Science background in their college).
• Testing is never complete and software project isn’t over when it is delivered.

Interesting, I didn’t know that I learned these things till I actually thought about them.

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