R150P0216A00 - Alpha
In my high school junior year I became obsessed with the Apollo missions. More specifically, how they were able to build a rocket by the end of the 1960s without losing every crewed mission they had. I then had the rather interesting idea of treating writing a piece of software like I was building a rocket – testing each component thoroughly, ensuring the interfaces were small and understandable by one person, etc.
The thing is… building a rocket is hard. Taking the good parts of the process and then focusing on just software design and engineering is even harder, especially for a stupid high school student.