Basically, it gave me a new vocabulary for thinking about the decisions I make every day when coding. It opened my eyes about things to look for, to focus on, to change, and so on. With regards to decisions, I also love Dan North's Decisions, Decions from NDC recently: https://vimeo.com/43536417
It's mainly the basic philosophy that Hickey focuses on that changed a lot for me, not any of the specific examples. After watching Hickey I've read great books such as Pragmatic Programmer, Passionate Programmer, Coders at Work, and other books that have helped me, as a recent university graduate, build my "coding philosophy". Hickey was just a very inspiring "first step" in changing how I look at code.
It's mainly the basic philosophy that Hickey focuses on that changed a lot for me, not any of the specific examples. After watching Hickey I've read great books such as Pragmatic Programmer, Passionate Programmer, Coders at Work, and other books that have helped me, as a recent university graduate, build my "coding philosophy". Hickey was just a very inspiring "first step" in changing how I look at code.