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byDavid Thomas, Andrew Hunt
your journey to mastery
byDavid Thomas, Andrew Hunt
(Content complete! The current beta is headed to the printer for fall release in hardback. See below for special pricing).
For twenty years, the lessons fromThe Pragmatic Programmerhave helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology. This classic title is regularly featured on “Top Ten” lists, and many corporations issue it to their new hires.
This new 20 th Anniversary Edition offers a fresh look at the modern development landscape, cutting through the “business as usual” and tired advice from the net to help guide you through the next twenty years and beyond. Featuring new tips, new topics, and revisions throughout, you don’t want to miss this one.
Published by Addison Wesley by special arrangement with the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Print books available in bookstores worldwide this fall. Ebook available here — all available ebook formats for one price, withno restrictiveDRM.
Special upgrade offer for beta customers only:
When thehardcoverprint book is available for pre-order in late summer / early fall of 2019 at InformIT (that’s the Pearson / Addison-Wesley eCommerce site), we ‘ ll send you an email with a limited time discount code to order the book at 50% * off the list price.
*This offer is only good at informit.com and is subject to change.
Please note:This title is not eligible for any returns, sales, coupons, or other discounts.
Pages:320 (est)
Published:2019 – 09 – 15
Release: (P1.0) 2019 – 09 – 18)
ISBN:978 – 0 – 1359 – 5705 – 9
Andy and Dave wrote this influential, classic book to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. Almost twenty years later, its advice is still spot on, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories.
This new edition examines the core of modern software development — understanding what is wanted and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging 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
Written as a series of self -contained sections and filled with classic and fresh anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies,The Pragmatic Programmerillustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career.
You’ll become a Pragmatic Programmer.
The Pragmatic Programmer, Second Editionis written in small topic sections, each section ranging from two to ten pages long. Most sections contain a small set of exercises and challenges.
- Preface to the Second Edition
- From the Preface to the First Edition
- A Pragmatic Philosophy
- It’s Your Life
- The Cat Ate My Source Code
- Software Entropy
- Stone Soup and Boiled Frogs
- Good-Enough Software
- Your Knowledge Portfolio
- Communicate!
- A Pragmatic Approach
- The Essence of Good Design
- DRY– The Evils of Duplication
- Orthogonality
- Reversibility
- Tracer Bullets
- Prototypes and Post-it Notes
- Domain Languages
- Estimating
- The Basic Tools
- The Power of Plain Text
- Shell Games
- Power Editing
- Version Control
- Debugging
- Text Manipulation
- Engineering Daybooks
- Pragmatic Paranoia
- (Design by Contract)
- Dead Programs Tell No Lies
- Assertive Programming
- How to Balance Resources
- Don’t Outrun Your Headlights
- Bend, or Break
- (Decoupling)
- Juggling the Real World
- Transforming Programming
- Inheritance Tax
- Configuration
- Concurrency
- Breaking Temporal Coupling
- Shared State Is Incorrect State
- Actors and Processes
- Blackboards
- While You Are Coding
- Listen to Your Lizard Brain
- Programming by Coincidence
- Algorithm Speed
- Refactoring
- Test to Code
- Property-Based Testing
- Stay Safe Out There
- Naming Things
- Before the Project
- The Requirements Pit
- Solving Impossible Puzzles
- Working Together
- The Essence of Agility
- Pragmatic Projects
- Pragmatic Teams
- Coconuts Don’t Cut It
- Delight Your Users
- Pride and Prejudice
Pragmatic Starter Kit
- Postface
- Possible Answers to the Exercises
Dave and Andy are the Pragmatic Programmers and founders of the Pragmatic Bookshelf.
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