[...] Recently, I stumbled across Oliver Steele’s site and found his link to The Programmer’s Food Pyramid. Looking it over, I recognized the importance of most of the items there. Reading code, and reading about code of course. Writing code, how obvious. Revising code, okay, I had always lumped that one into the reading code and writing code blocks, but I could see how it could be considered a separate activity. Then, up there at the top, the one that made me think for a minute. [...]
Oliver Steele lives in Western Massachusetts and commutes to downtown LA, where he is bringing an operating system from handwaving to reality. He was the architect of OpenLaszlo, the author of PyWordNet and other open source projects. His interests include programming languages, knowledge representation, information visualization, and math education. [more]
[...] Recently, I stumbled across Oliver Steele’s site and found his link to The Programmer’s Food Pyramid. Looking it over, I recognized the importance of most of the items there. Reading code, and reading about code of course. Writing code, how obvious. Revising code, okay, I had always lumped that one into the reading code and writing code blocks, but I could see how it could be considered a separate activity. Then, up there at the top, the one that made me think for a minute. [...]