Master programming skills through the book “the pragmatic programmer from journey to master” which is written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.
The book contains 8 chapters with 321 pages to master programming skills
chapter 1: a pragmatic philosophy
chapter 2: a pragmatic approach
chapter 3: the basic tools
chapter 4: pragmatic paranoia
chapter 5: bend, or break
chapter 6: while you are coding
chapter 7: Before the project
chapter 8: pragmatic projects
What problems does this book solve to Master programming skills ?
Explains the myth that there is no such thing as the best solution
The qualities that needed to become a pragmatic programmer
How the famous broken window theory is related to software entropy
Explained how perfection is maintained by comparing with a real-life situation like Gardner and the garden
The story stone and boiled frogs have a deep meaning related to start-up fatigue and how people find it easier to join an ongoing success
How software disasters start with small things to notice then turns into a disaster
The evils of duplication in software development and surviving in a world of scarcities with limited time and resources.
The concept of orthogonality in the software development process with overlap issues
How time pressure tempted us to copy but in reality there is no such thing as short cuts, always short cuts make for long delays
The concept of reversibility and the danger of thinking the only idea you have.
The concept of estimating to know whether this is practical and where do estimates come from
A list of basic tools that are essential for software developers like git, debugging tool, notepad.
Designing modules by contract and documenting and verifying, preconditions, postconditions, and an exception
The concept of an event and event minimize coupling b/w objects
Blackboard approach to co-ordinate workflow.
Programming by coincidence and how to program deliberately.
The concept of refactoring and when should you refactor
The requirements pit, documenting requirements, template for gathering requirements
Ruthless testing, what to test
My view of the book
The book is written to give tips to software developer’s and the book contains total 70 tips in it, I really like stories which he used to explain the software development concept, like broken window theory, stone soup, and boiled frogs
For me, it is important making notes whatever I read, so I made notes of this book if I forget something I can go through notes easily, by reading this book it feels like the author had a broad experience in software development.
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