Software as a Garden: Software Development for Non-Developers
Software development is often compared to building a house due to similarities such as design and maintenance. However, this analogy is somehow lacking since it overlooks one critical detail: software is in a constant state of change.
This continuous evolution is the essence of software—if it isn't evolving, it’s either obsolete or soon will be. This is where the “soft” in software comes from: software is easy to change compared to hardware, which, like a house, is rigid.
Software development is more like gardening. Just like a garden, a software system is continuously changing, evolving, and growing.
Software is all about change!
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Software development is often compared to building a house due to similarities such as design and maintenance. However, this analogy is somehow lacking since it overlooks one critical detail: software is in a constant state of change.
This continuous evolution is the essence of software—if it isn't evolving, it’s either obsolete or soon will be. This is where the “soft” in software comes from: software is easy to change compared to hardware, which, like a house, is rigid.
Software development is more like gardening. Just like a garden, a software system is continuously changing, evolving, and growing.
Software is all about change!
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A non-technical guide to how modern software is developed, from the first line of code to its release. You’ll learn about the effectiveness of agile teamwork, the role of programming and software architecture, and how software is deployed and operated on cloud platforms, and securely accessed over the internet using web technologies.
Everything is presented in a friendly, step-by-step manner, without assuming any prior knowledge, providing just enough detail to give you the big picture while keeping your sanity intact.
This is not just another dry encyclopedia filled with buzzwords and confusing jargon. It’s designed to help non-developers understand developers and to help developers grow more understood.
If you’re a project manager, product owner, scrum master, QA specialist, business analyst, aspiring developer, student, considering a career change, or just curious about software development, this book is for you!
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Table of Contents
- About the Book
- Who Should Read This Book
- How to Read This Book
- What This Book Is Not About
- About the Author
- Software as a Garden
- Software Is About Change
- Cultivating Success
- Collaboration
- Growth Through Change
- Branching Out
- Summary
- Getting Hands Dirty
- Programming
- How to Catch a Bug
- Testing the Soil
- Summary
- Harmony in Green
- Software Architecture
- Less Is More
- Together and Independent
- Patterns of Nature
- Bend but Not Break
- Summary
- Front the Flowers
- Frontend Development
- Flourishing Screens
- Summary
- Back to the Roots
- Backend Development
- Entangled in the Web
- Rest in Leaves
- Summary
- On the Greenway
- Networking
- Through the Vines
- Summary
- Beyond the Harvest
- Data Storage
- Information Fields
- A Raindrop Away
- With the Current
- Summary
- From Pot to Plot
- Deployment
- In a Greenhouse
- To the Cloud
- Summary
- Caring for the Green
- Operations
- Evergreen
- At the Bedrock
- Summary
- No Trespassing
- Security
- Weeding Out
- Hidden in the Grass
- Holes in the Fence
- Summary
- Grow Your Mind
- Appendix
- Further Reading
- Glossary
- Credits
- About the Book
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