flowchart LR A[Problem] --> B(Let's code & See what happens...) C[The Pitt] D(Optimal Solution) C --> B B --> C C --> A
Albertus’ Dilemma
SCRUM Step 9
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Albertus’ Dilemma explores the mental challenges faced by programmers throughout the workweek
📘 Summary: SCRUM Step 9 - Albertus’ Dilemma
Albertus’ Dilemma explores the mental challenges faced by programmers throughout the workweek, symbolized by a diminishing canteen of creative energy.
The dilemma arises from the misconception that working harder will replenish this energy, leading to exhaustion and a productivity trap: the well.
To break free, programmers must strategically pause, reflect, and make informed decisions.
Embracing intermittent coding preserves mental energy, ensuring a successful journey from code to relaxation.
Albertus’ Dilemma serves as a guiding philosophy for maintaining balance, resulting in a clear-minded, stress-free programmer celebrating a job well done by week’s end.
Keywords: Step 9 - Albertus’ Dilemma
Albertus’ Dilemma, Mental Challenges, Creative-Mind-Brain Energy, Productivity Trap, Strategic Pause, Informed Decisions, Intermittent Coding, Balance, Clear-minded, Stress-free, Coding Desert, Journey, Programmer’s Oasis, Reflection, Decision-making, Desert Wisdom, Coding Legacy
1 What is a dilemma?
2 Albertus’ Dilemma: The Comic
TipAlbertus’ Dilemma - Navigating the Programmer’s Oasis
In the vast landscape of the workweek, each programmer embarks with a canteen full of precious water, symbolizing their mental energy. Monday marks the beginning of the journey, the oasis brimming with potential. But as the relentless sun of tasks beats down, the water supply diminishes.
By Tuesday, the once-full canteen is distressingly dry—a programmer stranded in the midweek desert, parched for creativity and focus. The Albertus Dilemma unfolds as a dilemma rooted in the illusion that working harder and longer will miraculously refill the canteen.
The paradox arises: the more they toil in the arid landscape, the deeper they dig themselves into a well of exhaustion. The coding well, ever-expanding with each line of code, becomes a trap. Blind to their own depletion, programmers find themselves ensnared, the oasis of productivity slipping further away.
To break free from Albertus Dilemma, programmers must recognize the futility of digging deeper. Instead, they must pause, survey the desert, and conserve the remaining droplets of mental energy. The oasis can only be replenished through strategic reflection and intelligent decision-making.
Coding without a clear path forward is akin to stumbling into the well—a descent into a labyrinth of confusion. The remedy lies in restraint, in knowing when to pause and when to resume. The oasis is not lost, merely obscured by the mirage of perpetual productivity.
Thus, the sage programmer embraces the art of intermittent coding, preserving mental water in the vast desert. They understand that productivity is not a bottomless well, but a delicate oasis to be nurtured. Albertus’ Dilemma teaches the profound lesson that the journey from coding to completion requires a balance of diligence, strategic thinking, and the wisdom to discern when to rest and when to forge ahead.
As the week unfolds, the sage programmer, having embraced the lessons of Albertus Dilemma, emerges unscathed by the pitfalls of the coding desert. By judiciously preserving mental energy, they reach Friday with a canteen still brimming with vitality. Instead of succumbing to exhaustion, they find themselves relaxed and content, basking in the success of their strategic approach.
Friday becomes a celebration, not just the end of the workweek, but a culmination of intelligent choices. The sage programmer, stress-free and clear-minded, revels in the satisfaction of a job well done. With a fully replenished canteen, they embark on the weekend with boundless energy to share with friends, enjoying leisure without the burden of unwise coding decisions.
The code produced throughout the week reflects the clarity of their mind—a clean and elegant manifestation of thoughtful problem-solving. The sage programmer, having navigated the desert wisely, not only secures their own well-being but crafts a legacy of efficient and mindful coding. Albertus Dilemma becomes not just a dilemma to overcome but a guiding philosophy, ensuring that the oasis of productivity is always within reach, and the journey from code to relaxation is a harmonious and successful one.
3 Overview
4 Introduction
As a future developer I want to relate the struggles and reflect the mentality that you, my fellow reader and potential developer, should avoid.
My purpose is to stablish some patterns of productive thinking to help you to get out from the Valley of Despair a.k.a. (and from now on) The Pitt that most likely you would fall into. Trust me, I’ve been there…Actually I AM constantly there, that’s why I want to reflect that in this kind of journal.
CautionAnyway
That’s the tricky part, I don’t know how as of today (01/19/2023). But hopefully I will. First of all you need to understand the concept of iteration, my friend. With that in mind, we just need to start.
5 Albertus’ Dilemma… What are we talking about?
You surely noticed the flowchart above. It’s such a common pattern for us who just started programming. Have you ever feel identified with it?
As you keep progressing in your coding lessons, problems are going to be slightly more difficult and complex every time. Until you reach to a point when you can’t completely see the solution in your mind.
You’ll probably see straight how to get from A to B, but from B to C you see it blurry… Well, then you just have to get to B so you can see more clear how to get to C better, right?
Yes, I always trick to myself like that…
NoteWhen we talk about Albertus’ Dilemma:
It is that moment when you either need to stop, take two steps back and think what led you into this or keep hitting the wall (and the keyboard with your pointless code).
I’m going to try to develop that idea on some exercises based on this lab:
So I have this requirement:
- Make a program that can manage information about movies such as:
- Movie name.
- Its director (e.g. so I can plan a themed marathon with my friends.)
- Director’s prestige: I want to know how many Oscars has the director won through his career.
- It also needs to include its critics made by the best professionals and to know how well or poorly rated it is.
User Story #1 - The easiest and certain way to hit the wall.
Let’s just start coding:
public Class MovieManager {
public static void main(String[])
}
flowchart LR A[Problema] --> B[Decision] B --> C(Code & See) B --> D(Piensa) D --> E[Sabes lo que haces?] C --> G[El Pozo] D --> F[Te enamoraste de tu primera idea?] G --> A