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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

ISBN: 020161622X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 81

Authors: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

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• Starting Page
• Table of Content
• Front Matter
• Foreword
• Preface
• Who Should Read This Book?
• What Makes a Pragmatic Programmer?
• Individual Pragmatists, Large Teams
• It s a Continuous Process
• How the Book Is Organized
• What s in a Name?
• Chapter 1. A Pragmatic Philosophy
• The Cat Ate My Source Code
• Software Entropy
• Stone Soup and Boiled Frogs
• Good-Enough Software
• Your Knowledge Portfolio
• Communicate
• Summary
• Chapter 2. A Pragmatic Approach
• The Evils of Duplication
• Orthogonality
• Reversibility
• Tracer Bullets
• Prototypes and Post-it Notes
• Domain Languages
• Estimating
• Chapter 3. The Basic Tools
• The Power of Plain Text
• Shell Games
• Power Editing
• Source Code Control
• But My Team Isn t Using Source Code Control
• Source Code Control Products
• Debugging
• Text Manipulation
• Exercises
• Code Generators
• Chapter 4. Pragmatic Paranoia
• Design by Contract
• Dead Programs Tell No Lies
• Assertive Programming
• When to Use Exceptions
• How to Balance Resources
• Objects and Exceptions
• Balancing and Exceptions
• When You Can t Balance Resources
• Checking the Balance
• Exercises
• Chapter 5. Bend or Break
• Decoupling and the Law of Demeter
• Metaprogramming
• Temporal Coupling
• It s Just a View
• Blackboards
• Chapter 6. While You Are Coding
• Programming by Coincidence
• Algorithm Speed
• Refactoring
• Code That s Easy to Test
• Evil Wizards
• Chapter 7. Before the Project
• The Requirements Pit
• Solving Impossible Puzzles
• Not Until You re Ready
• The Specification Trap
• Circles and Arrows
• Chapter 8. Pragmatic Projects
• Pragmatic Teams
• Ubiquitous Automation
• Ruthless Testing
• It s All Writing
• Great Expectations
• Pride and Prejudice
• Appendix A. Resources
• Professional Societies
• Building a Library
• Internet Resources
• Bibliography
• Appendix B. Answers to Exercises