7. Repeat & Improve

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." – Kent Beck

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." — Edsger W. Dijkstra

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming" — Donald Knuth (1974)

Trade-offs Factors

1. Readability
2. Simplicity
3. Generalisation
4. Abstraction
5. Complexity - Profiling and Benchmarking
   1. Time
   2. Memory
   3. Storage
6. Refactoring
7. import this
8. Constraints
   1. Time
   2. Knowledge & Skills
   3. Motivation

Checkout Question:

What should be improved in the solution? Why? In which order (set your priorities)?