The path toward craftmanship

Recently, I read Andy Hunt's Refactor Your Thinking, one of the best non technical books I've read in the recent months. The book emphasize Dreyfus's learning model. The root of this model backs on 1970's. Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus began doing researches on how people attain and master skills. According to this model, a person when attaining a skill will go through five different stages: Novice, Advanced Beginners, Competent, Proficient and finally Expert. The model is a skill-based model, It emphasize on the learning process of a person for each skill versus the learning process of a person totally. This model has a great impact on agile methodologies. It was interesting for me, according to model, most of the people in their life are in novices and advanced beginners stages. They would not be expert at all.
They will not be watchful in what they will learn. They only try to solve a problem which occurred for them for the sake of solving, not learning. This is the problem. For being a craftsman or an expert, we must go through these stages, one by one, step by step.
All is this, this model describes the path which a novice must go to become a journeyman and then, undergo finally toward craftsmanship. I delighted a lot with reading this book and acquainting that the Dreyfus model is existed. Read It, You'll get benefits of it in long-term.

Daily issues

Finally the end semester's exam have been arrived, and the first of them, Software Engineering II passed today. I hope the others of them, including numerical computations, Artificial Intelligence and finally Web Engineering arrive sooner and pass greatly. Every year, In every semester I try to bear in my mind that it will be great if I try a little harder across the semester against exam's night waking sessions. :) but it won't happen in these four years. This semester will be one of my lasts in the university and probably Iran, hope to these other exams finish sooner and of course with good results. This post hasn't any specific purpose, It was a honest confession about the future and my own mental thoughts.
About my reading favourites, I'm waiting for Uncle Bob's "clean coder" impatiently and I'm reading Steve Freeman's "Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided By Tests" currently. It's a wonderful and high content book and is recommended by biggest lords of the industry.
Today, Is June 12th and in persian calendar Khordad 22th. The anniversary of fraud in Iran presidential election in 2009 that caused great pain in the country. Anti-Government activists called a rally for today. We will see what will happen. Hope that the government change his behavior and do not treat with his people with brutality. AMIN, However I'm agnostic ;)
Ok, enough. I try to write review for Freeman's awesome book after completing reading of it.