Apr 21

Ten Commandments I was reading an article about the death of actor Charlton Heston, most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic movie, “The Ten Commandments.” That gave me the idea to write a “Programmer’s 10 Commandments,” but a quick perusal of Google showed that many people have already been there, done that.

So instead, here is a bunch of “Commandments for Programmers”:

10 Commandments of Egoless Programming – Coding Horror

15 Commandments to Curb Bad Programmer Habits – Software Reality

Programmer’s 10 Commandments – Dirk’s Junk Box

10 Commandments of a Programmer – Of Thoughts, Chocolate and Vices

1010 Commandments – Rayden Industries (1010 == 10 in binary)

10 Commandments of .NET – Vinod Kumar

10 Commandments of Software Engineering – CodeGuru

10 Commandments of Programming – Sydney Morning Herald

10 Commandments of Stress-Free Programming – Joke the Monkey

10 Software Startup Commandments – Mark Fletcher

10 Commandments for C Programmers – Henry Spencer

10 Commandments for the Security-Conscious Programmer – Builder.au

10 Commandments for Game Development – Ernest W. Adams

Open Source Commandments – ZDNet

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Article published on April 21, 2008




2 Responses to “10 Commandments for Programmers”

  1. timm Says:

    Another to add to the list:

    http://damieng.com/blog/2008/08/01/ten-commandments-for-developers

  2. 10 commandment of computer Says:

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