97Things Every Programmer Should Know

PROGRAMMERS HAVE A LOT ON THEiR MiNDS. Programming languages,
programming techniques, development environments, coding style, tools,
development process, deadlines, meetings, software architecture, design patterns, team dynamics, code, requirements, bugs, code quality. And more. A lot.
There is an art, craft, and science to programming that extends far beyond
the program. The act of programming marries the discrete world of computers with the fluid world of human affairs. Programmers mediate between the
negotiated and uncertain truths of business and the crisp, uncompromising
domain of bits and bytes and higher constructed types.
With so much to know, so much to do, and so many ways of doing so, no
single person or single source can lay claim to “the one true way.” Instead, 97
Things Every Programmer Should Knowdraws on the wisdom of crowds and
the voices of experience to offer not so much a coordinated big picture as a
crowdsourced mosaic of what every programmer should know. This ranges
from code-focused advice to culture, from algorithm usage to agile thinking,
from implementation know-how to professionalism, from style to substance.