Programmers may still be programmers, and coders may only be coders

Other Q & A platforms recommended me a question two days ago ：

One Java Student's self statement , Very confused , What should I do now ? 

After watching , Think of the problems I have been thinking about these two days , Just want to put some of the original ideas together to write an article .

First of all, I see some current situations ：

1. A large number of schools are teaching computer science , From Tsinghua 、 Peking University 、985、211 To junior college 、 instruction by correspondence 、 Bluebird training .
2. There are a large number of IT company , Every city needs IT The company supports smart communities 、 Health code to smart city 、 Localization services such as intelligent government .
3. New first tier cities IT Companies appear in large numbers , It turned out that programmers from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen supported the whole country IT Building , Now is the rise of a new front , The provincial capital city supports the whole province with integrated local companies .

in general , The industry of writing programs , You find it more and more common , He has become an ordinary occupation that is often seen in daily life , It turns out that a programmer may be a white-collar , Now it can be said clearly , It's a blue collar （ Except the giant ）.

This is good , It shows that our society is becoming more and more modern , More is needed IT brace , But from the perspective of the industry , I think it is somewhat out of line with the development of the times .

For example, I ask a question , Your architecture office or CTO、 Architects , What documents are delivered to you ？

Detailed design ？ERD chart ？ Or simply a brain map , A project explanation ？ Or simply let the design draw , Develop your own assessment ？

Most companies , I guess the bosses who are really responsible for architecture or overall design , In fact, the delivery should not escape these things ？

This shows a question , Management of software industry , It's actually Guidance form Of , The main role of the middle and senior level to the lower level staff is to guide you how to work , Instead of participating in the process of work .

let me put it another way , In fact, the software industry is still apprenticeship , The consistent practice of traditional workshops .

A few years ago , As a small start-up company CTO, Do the same , I think it's reasonable to do so , I teach you to do work , Just study and do well .

Until I found that it didn't seem to work at all .

Because the programmers recruited , Basically, I only accepted the ordinary of school IT education （Java Program 、 Data structure and other tutorials that make college students confused ）, Then I went to a training institution to study for a few days Spring frame , I can't understand the concept I mentioned at all .

Give me an example , Once a customer said that a super administrator should be set up in the administrator , Set our manager to a higher authority , I'll say Xiao Wang （ The programmer ）, The customer said that an administrator level is not enough , You need to design multi-level administrators , Including administrators and super administrators , And then put xxx Set the permissions of to super administrator , Then my programmer wrote the following code in the program ：

if (admin.Id == 43) {
   admin.Role = "super"
}

I said this 43 What is it , He said it was their boss's system ID ah .

I'm speechless , I criticized him severely , He is also very wronged , From the perspective of the project , He really achieved such a realistic goal , He thought there was nothing wrong , But I think , I clearly expressed several levels of things ：1） Design multi-level administrators , Including administrators and super administrators ;2） hold xxx Set the permissions of to super administrator , How can you simplify it like this , Lead to this logic No scalability , Cannot deploy repeatedly Well .

This example is a little extreme , But this is generally the case in most R & D , Especially when outsourcing project research and development .

From the second year , I began to realize , Simple education doesn't work , I have to express some requirements with fixed meanings more clearly , Include ：

1） Write a lot of documents , Any guidance work should be written as a guide , Written include 1）java The design requirements ,2） Backstage design requirements ,3） Database design requirements , for instance ：

Don't use 0, perhaps “”、false Wait for the default value as normal

For example, a data has status Field , Indicate whether it can be used or not , For example, use non default values as normal , for example 1,“true”,true etc. , In order to avoid the process being considered a reasonable process without specifying this value due to the default value .

This requirement is not only required by the company , Customers often ask

Used in program 0 As a normal value, it is ancient c The old problems left by language programs , at that time , Often used 0 As normal , Use negative numbers as system exceptions , Positive numbers are usually used to represent business branches , This is because c Caused by the language pattern of , Any normal code of our company should no longer apply this logic .

2） I started in the program , Specify which code and who can change it in the form of comments , Who can't change , And the consequences after the change ：

//  This is the calling function of the underlying blockchain , Under no circumstances should you comment , Found once , Punish once 
recorder.AddRecord(GetOwner(info1.getSfz(), "2"), LocalService.getKabaoCallerid(), s.getDataid(),
  GetNowTime(),
  output.get("code").toString());

Start with this , In fact, it leads to my point of view today ：

Future programmers will be clearly divided into programmers and coders , Programmers will be like technicians in factories , Drawing , Yard farmers are equivalent to factory workers , Only responsible for filling the specific logic code according to the drawing .

The existing The structure management system is no longer applicable , The architecture office was expanded into the Technology Department , The output extends from design specification to some kind of intelligent document , It can be extended to code , It can be rechecked , Collaboration is possible .

Other R & D personnel are gathered in the development department , Fill in the detail code , Personnel requirements are further reduced , It is likely that the flexible employment platform will occupy most of the personnel supply , On demand .

Some people may think that I am either alarmist , In fact, many state-owned enterprises have already done so , I only recruit core employees , A large number of people are sent to the site by the expatriate company . It's just that the intelligent and automated programs of the collaboration interface can't be standardized like the factory drawings .

This is the necessity of industry development , It is also the need of industry development , I don't want to talk about my industry as backward production capacity , But maybe he will be like this in the future .