The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition

Series
Pearson
Author
Felienne,Hermans  
Publisher
Manning
Cover
Softcover
Edition
1
Language
English
Total pages
275
Pub.-date
December 2021
ISBN13
9781617298677
ISBN
1617298670


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The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition
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Description

Your brain responds in a predictable way when it encounters new or difficult tasks. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted incognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code.

In The Programmer's Brain:What every programmer needs to know about cognition you will learn:

  • Fast and effective ways to master new programming languages
  • Speed reading skills to quickly comprehend new code
  • Techniques to unravel the meaning of complex code
  • Ways to learn new syntax and keep it memorized
  • Writing code that is easy for others to read
  • Picking the right names for your variables
  • Making your codebase more understandable to newcomers
  • Onboarding new developers to your team

Learn how to optimize your brain's natural cognitive processes to read code more easily, write code faster, and pick up new languages in much less time. This book will help you through the confusion you feel when faced with strange and complex code, and explain a code base inways that can make a new team member productive in days!

Back Cover

The Programmer's Brain unlocks the way we think about code. It offers scientifically sound techniques that canradically improve the way you master new technology, comprehend code, andmemorize syntax. You'll learn how to benefit from productive struggle and turn confusion into a learning tool. Along the way, you'll discover how to create study resources as you become an expert at teaching yourself and bringing new colleagues up to speed.

Author

Dr. Felienne Hermans is an associate professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has spent the last decade researching learning and teaching programming. Felienne is an award-winning educator, the creator of the Hedy programming language for novice programmers, and a host of Software Engineering Radio—one of the world's largest programming
podcasts.