Facebook Trumps

I'm not a professional programmer, I did some programming at university and am exposed to the consequences of other people's code at work. Making a Trumps game from Facebook friends is not the most complex or difficult thing to do - however I want to do it right; as simple and as sensible as I can.

This is for two purposes - First in order that I can finish it, that it does not become lumpen and unmanageable and lead me just to give up - Second to learn, to spend sometime absorbing other people's experiences and hopefully improve my own skills. I want to become a professional programmer, and perhaps this can help.

My sources of wisdom, in other words what I have studied, are books blogs and articles from the Internet. O'Reilly have a service called Safari (http://safari.oreilly.com/) which I have been able to join. There are masses of software engineering and coding books on there. I have alse been able to follow discussions on usenet (via http://groups.google.com/) and application programming discussion websites (such as http://www.theserverside.com/). Other sources of information include developer blogs and API documents.

Labels: approach, developerworks, o'reilly, safari, serverside