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The head of my department used to say, “Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from poor judgment.” If you make enough mistakes and you learn from them, you can become a good API designer. I believe that my many bad design decisions have been the biggest source of my current understanding. However, the learning curve is initially painful. It also takes a lot of time, and the knowledge gained isn’t easy to transfer.
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© 2008 Jaroslav Tulach
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(2008). Using Games to Improve API Design Skills. In: Practical API Design. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0974-4_17
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