Table of Content

Pragmatic Programmer, The: From Journeyman to Master

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 ?

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

2. A Pragmatic Approach
     The Evils of Duplication
     Orthogonality
     Reversibility
     Tracer Bullets
     Prototypes and Post-it Notes
     Domain Languages
     Estimating

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

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

5. Bend or Break
     Decoupling and the Law of Demeter
     Metaprogramming
     Temporal Coupling
     It's Just a View
     Blackboards

6. While You Are Coding
     Programming by Coincidence
     Algorithm Speed
     Refactoring
     Code That's Easy to Test
     Evil Wizards

7. Before the Project
     The Requirements Pit
     Solving Impossible Puzzles
     Not Until You're Ready
     The Specification Trap
     Circles and Arrows

8. Pragmatic Projects
     Pragmatic Teams
     Ubiquitous Automation
     Ruthless Testing
     It's All Writing
     Great Expectations
     Pride and Prejudice

A. Resources
     Professional Societies
     Building a Library
     Internet Resources
     Bibliography

B. Answers to Exercises



The Pragmatic Programmer(c) From Journeyman to Master
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
ISBN: 020161622X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 81

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