Welcome to the Tribe, Programmer
"To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child's play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds for both the customer and myriad colleagues for whom she is partially responsible."
In this essay [How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary], Robert L. Read attempts to summarize as concisely as possible those things that he wishes someone had explained to him when he was twenty-one.
