The Pragmatic Programmer
Your Journey To Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
by David Thomas
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“@dandr3ss yeah that's a good book... Code Complete is good and super thorough... Head first design patterns also good | Classic book for computer programmers. I read it first in 2003 before I was taking book notes, so I read it again now to take notes. Great wisdom in here. Amazing to see how much of its advice was adopted as norms by Ruby on Rails. | Currently reading The Pragmatic Programmer by @pragdave @PragmaticAndy which I would highly recommend! And it taught me a new term: “Heisenbug” I.e. a bug that changes its behavior when you try to debug it. | Not all of these things are technically Programming,. For example, asking yourself "why am I doing this Is this even worth doing at all" isn't thinking outside the box; it's something you should incorporate into your daily routine to keep yourself – and your coworkers – sane. And that's what makes Pragmatic Programmer such a great book.”
Source →“@dandr3ss yeah that's a good book... Code Complete is good and super thorough... Head first design patterns also good | Classic book for computer programmers. I read it first in 2003 before I was taking book notes, so I read it again now to take notes. Great wisdom in here. Amazing to see how much of its advice was adopted as norms by Ruby on Rails. | Currently reading The Pragmatic Programmer by @pragdave @PragmaticAndy which I would highly recommend! And it taught me a new term: “Heisenbug” I.e. a bug that changes its behavior when you try to debug it. | Not all of these things are technically Programming,. For example, asking yourself "why am I doing this Is this even worth doing at all" isn't thinking outside the box; it's something you should incorporate into your daily routine to keep yourself – and your coworkers – sane. And that's what makes Pragmatic Programmer such a great book.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Derek Sivers and Jeff Atwood
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Straight from the trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process: transforming a requirement into working, maintainable code that delights users. Extensively updated with ten new sections and major revisions through...
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“@dandr3ss yeah that's a good book... Code Complete is good and super thorough... Head first design patterns also good | Classic book for computer programmers. I read it first in 2003 before I was taking book notes, so I read it again now to take notes. Great wisdom in here. Amazing to see how much of its advice was adopted as norms by Ruby on Rails. | Currently reading The Pragmatic Programmer by @pragdave @PragmaticAndy which I would highly recommend! And it taught me a new term: “Heisenbug” I.e. a bug that changes its behavior when you try to debug it. | Not all of these things are technically Programming,. For example, asking yourself "why am I doing this Is this even worth doing at all" isn't thinking outside the box; it's something you should incorporate into your daily routine to keep yourself – and your coworkers – sane. And that's what makes Pragmatic Programmer such a great book.”
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