Xtreme Programming - Must see for any dedicated coder

okay my father is a computer programmer for a large company and recently he said that we soon will
all need to know how to 'speak' if that the word to use, perl now i understand that
programming is a big thing but if i decide to learn programming and such what would be a good
program to start with. He had me on perl and it seemed pretty easy I just wanted some feed back from
others on what they thought on all this. Thanks, Anne...

I'm coming here not because I expect anyone to post a step by step of what it is but because
hopefully someone here has links to a website that explains it really well or maybe knows of a
script that uses it in a clear example. Any links would be greatly appreciated. I just need to
understand it to see if using it could save me some time and effort. Thanks Kage
Notice from microscopic^earthling: This topic deals with General Programming
Concept. So I guess it should be in Programming > General. Topic moved. Oopsadaisies. I sho...

There is a book named: "Balancing Agility and Discipline", in which Boehm suggest a mixture between
the different processes. When reading the top considering about the "programming job", I start to
think what our programmers should do in software development: just follow the discipline, such as
code standard, design pattern or we could try to be more agile sometime, to build an perfect article
freely?...