What You Need to be a Professional Developer

Regardless of where you currently are on the career ladder, you need to continually assess your ability to compete in your current Technological environment.

There are Five Essential Skills

… That Every Developer’s is Required to Possess 

…… And Implement in Their Daily Development

These concepts define your ability to provide code that is cost-effective for your Client. 

Those skills produce extensible and scalable deliverables that will support Change Requests from the Client in the future.

The Five Concepts Essential to the Professional Developer:

1. Boy Scout Principle – Leave the environment better than you entered it: Do not be afraid to implement the ten safe refactoring available to any  Code Violation

2. Open/Closed Principle – A Class or Method should be Open for extension but Closed for modification: Use Helper Methods

3. DRY Principle – Don’t Repeat Yourself: Comply with Open / Closed Principle by creating reusable Code in Helper Methods

4. Error Handling Pattern– Use the Request/Response Design Pattern to create a “Packing Slip” object that carries Error Information for Client’s method Response Object

5. Single Responsibility Principle – The “Mother of All Principles”: Understand the difference between a Classes and Methods single “Responsibility” to the calling Method and the “Dependencies” required to support that responsibility

These five Skill Sets are referred to as “BODES“

What is a “Bode”

… A Particular Indication of Something that is About to Happen

…… The Something to Happen is Better Developed Code for the Client

 

BODES represent the Minimum Development Skill Set

for the Modern Developer

Wisdom Pearl # 122 – Open Your Mind to Possibilities

There are Generally a Hundred Ways to Accomplish some Task

… But Only a Handful of Good Ways

… Have an Open Mind to the Other Possibilities