Cover art for Pragmatic Programmer, The
Published
Addison-Wesley, November 2019
ISBN
9780135957059
Format
Softcover, 352 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 19.6cm × 2.4cm

Pragmatic Programmer, The Your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

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The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those tech books you'll read, re-read, and read again over the years. Whether you're new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you'll come away with fresh insights each and every time.

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories.

Now, twenty years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you'll learn how to:

Fight software rot

Learn continuously

Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge

Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code

Harness the power of basic tools

Avoid programming by coincidence

Learn real requirements

Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code

Guard against security vulnerabilities

Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers

Take responsibility for your work and career

Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing

Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit

Delight your users

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