List of Sidebars

Chapter One : How Much Are You Worth?

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Chapter Two: A Primer For Fledgling Programmers

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Chapter Three: What Your Boss Really Wants from You

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Chapter Four: Tips from a Technical Interviewer

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Chapter Five: Final Interview? Ask These Questions

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Chapter Six: What You Wont Learn in Programming School

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Chapter Seven: The Beauty of Borrowed Code

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Chapter Eight: Learning from the Masters

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Chapter Nine: Techies and Bit-Twiddlers Are Doomed

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Chapter Ten: Harnessing the Brute Force of Calculation

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Chapter Eleven: Take On the Tough Jobs

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Chapter Twelve: Mission: Impossible

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Chapter Thirteen: How Your Work Is Tracked

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Chapter Fourteen: Boost Your Output and Lower Your Stress with Productivity Tools

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Chapter Fifteen: A Blueprint for Savvy Programming

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Chapter Sixteen: Master Millions of Lines of Complex Code

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Chapter Seventeen: Good Enough Programming for the Seasoned Programmer

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Chapter Eighteen: How Seasoned Programmers Stay at the Top of Their Game

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Chapter Nineteen: Self-Management Tips for the Seasoned Professional

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Chapter Twenty: Spotting Opportunities, Skirting Land Mines

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Chapter Twenty One: Slipping Into a New Corporate Culture

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Chapter Twenty Two: Mentors and Mentees

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Chapter Twenty Three: How Do You Deal with the End User?

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Chapter Twenty Four: When You Get a Really Bad Boss

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Chapter Twenty Five: A Raise and a Promotion In-House

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Chapter Twenty Six: A Big Push Out of the House

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Chapter Twenty Seven: Jumping to Management

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Chapter Twenty Eight: The Top of the Pyramid: The Programmer Consultant

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Chapter Twenty Nine: Write for Your Industry

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Chapter Thirty: Founding and Running Your Own Firm

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Chapter Thirty One: Inventing Your Own Software

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Chapter Thirty Two: Marketing Your Product

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