10 Hard Truths Developers Should Learn to Accept


2. The Tale of a lot of Data

Internet is the most widely used commodity of the software family. But, what exactly is internet. Its nothing but a huge bunch of Data linked together. There is huge chunk of data lying around in the servers around the world. Internet, as the name suggests creates a mesh of all this data and makes it available on one single world wide network. So, all of you who imagined that there must be a magician somewhere making all this information available to you, think again and you would see that internet is like that meticulous register of an accountant. So, programming websites can be something like maintaining this register and linking all the relevant data so that they can be easily found.

 

3. Scope Creep can be Creepy

A programmer tries to make his code as perfect as possible, but as the cliché goes,” Nothing in this world is perfect”. The real challenge comes if the scope of perfection of the code is unstructured; this phenomenon is referred by programmers as the Scope Creep. Scope Creep occurs when the demand from the end result of the program is really high and is not intimidated to the programmer at the beginning of the programming process. It is very likely that last minute changes are forcefully inflicted into codes just because the management team notices a scope for improvement, which might be completely insignificant from the programmer’s point of view.