Patterns and Principles Over Syntax Details

00:09:46 — Patterns and Principles Over Syntax Details

What great developers care about has much less to do with rote procedures or specific syntax and much more to do with principles, patterns, and higher-level understanding of how parts fit together, not necessarily the internals of those parts. This understanding creates an abstraction away from the particulars. They focus on the largest impact they can spend their energy on, rather than memorizing details that will become obsolete when the syntax changes or when they switch to a different language.