programming-for-dummies

The Pros and Cons of Software Engineering 123
Think of software engineering as a way to funnel your thinking and actions
toward writing well-designed and easy-to-understand programs. Programming
geniuses will likely find software engineering practices too restrictive and
confining, but they exist for your own protection, like seat belts in a car.
Without software engineering, only a handful of programming geniuses could
ever write a large program successfully. With software engineering, teams of
average programmers can write that same large program. The program may
lack the elegance of one written by a programming genius, but it will likely
work well enough to be useful.
Book I
Chapter 5
Managing Large
Projects with
Software
Engineering
In the computer industry, being good enough is all that most people want
and need.