Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers

Graham Lee
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers

The podcast for programmers who want to become software engineers. Software engineering analysis and reflection from Graham Lee, a software engineering educator, practitioner and researcher with two decades of field experience. Coming to you from https://www.sicpers.info.

Episodes

  1. 06/27/2022

    Professionalism and Responsibility

    The idea that increased autonomy and privilege for software engineers can only come when we have better confidence that software engineers are working in the best interests of society. Mike Klimek—Modern Software Development Gergely Orosz: What Silicon Valley “Gets” about … Continue reading →

    25 min

  2. 05/09/2022

    Specialism versus generality

    I look at the difference between being a deep specialist as a software engineer working on a particular “stack” and a generalist who builds software using a wide variety of tools, from the perspective of someone who has done both.

    33 min

  3. 03/18/2022

    Software Freedom is a Civil Liberties Issue

    Software freedom is a free speech issue. This has important consequences Software is eating the world Why can’t Karen Sandler get the source code for her pacemaker The Four Essential Freedoms On Social Justice and Software Licensing (or: why the … Continue reading →

    41 min

  4. 03/06/2022

    Responding to Change

    Sometimes it just seems like our customers are fickle flibbertigibbets who change their minds at the drop of a hat, right? Let’s look at what might be going on, and how to work with that. The Computer Programme Design Sprint … Continue reading →

    30 min

  5. 02/25/2022

    Organisation and Community

    I look at the historical basis of the white collar/blue collar divide in defining occupations, and the problems this distinction has with comprehending modern roles like engineering and various technician occupations. I then have difficulty fitting software roles into any … Continue reading →

    44 min

  6. 02/13/2022

    REST and SOAP

    I talk both about the difficulties of having objective conversations comparing technologies on the interwebs, and about a particular recent success in doing so: a comparison of RPC-over-HTTP methods. This particular conversation was on the Brumtech slack: I particularly recommend … Continue reading →

    35 min

  7. 02/03/2022

    The Personal Software Process

    This episode is about the Software Engineering Institute’s Personal Software Process (PSP), a particular disciplined way of improving a software engineer’s work. We talk about other the process in particular, and the idea of a continuous improvement process more generally. … Continue reading →

    31 min

  8. 01/23/2022

    Comprehensive Documentation

    I talk about the historical context of the Agile manifesto, what “comprehensive documentation” meant then, and what documentation is still important now. I also remind you that you can support this podcast by becoming a patron. I chose not to … Continue reading →

    32 min

  9. 01/09/2022

    Popularity

    This episode is all about the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity: when to use it, what its limitations are, why certain things are or aren’t popular, and why the hell isn’t Excel on the list.

    34 min

  10. 12/19/2021

    Information Security

    This issue is all about the various reasons information security isn’t taken more seriously by developers. CERT C Secure Coding Standard Open Web Application Security Project Microsoft Bluehat DefCon Security BSides

    26 min
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The podcast for programmers who want to become software engineers. Software engineering analysis and reflection from Graham Lee, a software engineering educator, practitioner and researcher with two decades of field experience. Coming to you from https://www.sicpers.info.

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