Top 3 Lessons (Re)Learned from Making My Chicken Defense Microgame

In this video you'll hear about my top 3 lessons learned and re-learned from making my free and open source microgame: Chicken Defense. You've probably heard some of these before, but somehow I'm still re-learning them even after writing code for over 20 years!

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🟠 Hofstadter's law (everything takes longer than you think): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law

🟠 Generics in C#: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/types/generics

🟠 KISS Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

🟠 YAGNI Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

🟠 FizzBuzz EE: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

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