Discover new books on Goodreads
See if your friends have read any of Sten Vesterli's books
Sten’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sten’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Sten Vesterli’s Followers (8)
74 books
|
100 friends
38 books
|
1,429 friends
64 books
|
38 friends
5 books
|
38 friends
6 books
|
54 friends
63 books
|
28 friends
15 books
|
30 friends
7 books
|
88 friends
More friends…
Sten Vesterli
Goodreads Author
Member Since
April 2014
You Don’t Need to Understand It
Relax. You don’t need to know how the code works. Your job as an IT professional is to create business value, not to hand-craft exquisite programs.
Every time the level of abstraction in our field increases, we fight back. People old enough to have written machine code talk about how they didn’t trust the C compiler. Many cars ago, I could lift the hood of my car and, at some level, understand how
Read more of this blog post »
More books by Sten Vesterli…
Sten Vesterli
is currently reading
read in November 2015
Sten Vesterli said:
"
This book has a practical, an inspirational, and a spiritual element. In practical terms, the book has suggestions that everybody can implement for making the most of their space (stack your T-shirts vertically, only keep pens in one place).
On the i ...more "
Sten’s Recent Updates
|
Sten Vesterli
wrote a new blog post
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
wants to read
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
wants to read
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
wants to read
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
wants to read
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
wants to read
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| An interesting view at the man behind so much of the news. Definitely not a hagiography. Like in his also excellent Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson seems to have had very good access to the man and the people around him, and to give an unbiased ...more | |
|
Sten Vesterli
is on page 435 of 688 of Elon Musk
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
is currently reading
|
|
|
Sten Vesterli
wants to read
|
|
“the road to programming hell is paved with global variables,”
― Code Complete
― Code Complete
“Favor read-time convenience to write-time convenience. Code”
― Code Complete
― Code Complete
“in the vast majority of systems, efficiency isn't critical.”
― Code Complete
― Code Complete
“Be sure that the names you choose favor read-time convenience over write-time convenience.”
― Code Complete
― Code Complete
“You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.”
― Code Complete
― Code Complete
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 348914 members
— last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more