Professional x Amateur

Software Engineering is different from Programming

Great text. Settles the issue of amateur programmer versus professional.

Plus good advice and references.

Full-stack developer?

What is this? Answers here and here.

Question: if we had a standard programming language and standard APIs, everyone would be a Full-stack developer. Right?

Computer Science Majors, Your Degree May Not Be As Valuable As You Think

Well, what this article show is that you can have programmers who will work as bricklayers. That's ok and enough to produce the bad spaghetti monolithic code of most commercial software. What about real developers. They should have, yes, a computer science degree. To be able to abstract concepts of the software they design. The keywork here is design, not build.

Programmers as artists

or more precisely, artisans. Good point.

Super programmers

Practical ideas on programmer productivity