--Originally published at Computer Systems Engineering
Let’s talk about chapter 9 of the book.
Just the title of the chapter speaks so much: how many thimes they ask us for something and in the process we think about some modifications that we think will make it better and forgot what we were asked to do in the first place. I have had this kingo of thought when i had to help build a web page for some people, they gave us the designs and we were just supposed to make it look like that but honestly their designs were find of ugly to me so i had to keep reminding to myself that that’s what they asked me to do and that I should just stick to it.
They talk about how we must think about the user while we build our program, to think all the use cases we can with no limits, to be creative and expect everything to avoid a situation in which out program doesn’t work because we didn’t thought about something that the customer might do. For every scenario that we think of we must make our program work for it, guiding the user to what the right path is in case they make an unexpected action, and that the expected uses work perfectly.
Also, what called my attention is how they say that yeah, all that OO principles and practices that you use to build your program are very helpfull to you and makes things clearer and all but at the end of the day the customer doesn’t care at all about that, they just want you to deliver something that works and solves their problem. That’s why we must think about the client ALL through the process.
Anyways, that is all, enjoy a good song for the morning:
