Expose Your Ignorance

Just like the title says this week I have read the pattern “Expose Your Ignorance” from “Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman” by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye. This pattern describes how any aspiring developer should put aside their ego and be able to tell other about not knowing something and ask questions.

Digital Code apparently can smell.

How can code smell? This was my question last class in my Software Architecture class, and I was surprised to learn that it can. Not literally of course, but because code can be written in a manner that somebody may say that there is something going bad in here, as food would. According to Wikipedia