A Post Entitled A Different Form of Ancestry
Okay, this is not really a code-related post. Several months ago I sat down with my son and tried to teach him some good coding concepts. It didn’t last too long because… I had no plan. I didn’t really think much of it until last night.
We were on our way to a soccer practice and talking about things that had gone on during the day. My son is taking an engineering class that focuses on mechanical engineering and told me that their next project is to build a bridge. The test for the bridge will be to support a bucket into which the teacher will pour water until the bridge collapses. Apparently the student whose bridge supports the greatest weight gets an ‘A’.
The objective is simple enough. What floored me was the way he tried to explain it to me even after laying out all the guidelines. He said, “So I have to build it knowing that I am going to break it. It’s like when you write software and write a test first, knowing that it’s going to fail, so that you can write the least amount of software possible to make it work.”
Wow. I guess the lesson got through much more than I thought!
Now, go build your own Ancestry: pass along your best coding skills to someone else.
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