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• Write the test first -> Try and run the test -> Write the minimal amount of code for the test to run and check the failing test output -> Write enough code to make it pass -> Refactor
• We must not neglect our test code in the refactoring stage
• It is important to question the value of your tests. It should not be a goal to have as many tests as possible, but rather to have as much confidence as possible in your code base. Having too many tests can turn in to a real problem and it just adds more overhead in maintenance. Every test has a cost.
• reflect.DeepEqual - useful for seeing if any two variables are the same. Caveat: It is not type safe. Compiles even if silly comparisons like array == string is done. https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#DeepEqual

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Epigrams on Programming

Alan J. Perlis, Yale University

This text has been published in SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9, September 1982, pages 7 - 13. I'm offering it here online until ACM stops me.

The phenomena surrounding computers are diverse and yield a surprisingly rich base for launching metaphors at individual and group activities. Conversely, classical human endeavors provide an inexhaustible source of metaphor for those of us who are in labor within computation. Such relationships between society and device are not new, but the incredible growth of the computer's influence (both real and implied) lends this symbiotic dependency a vitality like a gangly youth growing out of his clothes within an endless puberty.

The epigrams that follow attempt to capture some of the dimensions of this traffic in imagery that sharpens, focuses, clarifies, enlarges and beclouds our view of this most remarkable of all mans' artifacts, the computer.

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const { importSchema } = require('graphql-tools')
const { makeExecutableSchema } = require('graphql-tools')
const gql = require('graphql-tag')
const proxy = require('express-http-proxy');
const app = require('express')()
const http = require('http')
const { graphqlHTTP } = require('express-graphql');


const typeDefs = gql`

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FWIW: I didn't produce the content presented here (the outline from Edmond Lau's book). I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember what exactly the original source is. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

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