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| Subjects | Education, computer programming |
| Published | 1999 byAddison-Wesley |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-0135957059 |
| Website | pragprog |
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is a book aboutcomputer programming andsoftware engineering, written byAndrew Hunt andDavid Thomas and published in October 1999.[1][2][3] It is used as a textbook in related university courses.[4] It was the first in a series of books under the labelThe Pragmatic Bookshelf. A second edition,The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery was released in 2019 for the book's 20th anniversary, with major revisions and new material reflecting new technology and other changes in the software engineering industry over the preceding twenty years.
The book does not present a systematic theory, but rather a collection of tips to improve the development process in a pragmatic way. The main qualities of what the authors refer to as a pragmatic programmer are early adoption, fast adaptation, inquisitiveness and critical thinking, realism, and being a jack-of-all-trade.[5]
The book uses analogies and short stories to present development methodologies and caveats, for example thebroken windows theory, the story of thestone soup, or theboiling frog.[6] Some concepts were named or popularized in the book, such as DRY (ordon't repeat yourself) andrubber duck debugging, a method of debugging whose name is a reference to a story in the book.[7]
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