The Pragmatic Programmer Paperback – 24 Nov. 1999

Great quality 2nd hand

Book that provides good insights on how to become a good and efficient software engineer.

This book was very easy to read, and highlights many topics of software development. This book felt like I was reading material which I already agreed with/knew, but reading it in text re-enforced my confidence with it, such as with automation, shell scripts and plain text. I shall be be incorporating the advice of this book into my own projects in the future, such as (stronger) orthogonality, DRY principle (don't repeat your self), and domain languages.

This is quite simply the best programming book I've ever read. It's full of passages and quotes where you just go "YES!" inside you when reading it.The authors are IMO spot on almost in every aspect of software development and the book is a joy to read.It's the kind of book you'd like to enforce all of your colleagues, your customers and partners to read. It's that good.

Unlike other books that get too technical and present things from a perspective which is heavily influenced and leaning towards what suits the corporate world and big bureaucratic companies, this book is more like a journeyman's guide - its wisdom can be applied whether you're in freelance, working for a small business, or even for programmers working in large companies. I think that it's a book that should be in every software developer's bookcase.

Whether you work on your own or as part of a team, this books gets straight to the point on best practises.If you are like me, all the topics in this book are familiar to you, but you struggle to implement them, or don't always see the point - this book confirms that to be the best at what you do, you need to make these second nature.

Not the best in this categoryI learnt few thingsNot very comprehensive

So much good advice and many invaluable lessons. The metaphor of software engineers as gardeners and software development as gardening is one of my all time favorites. Each day I force myself to try to never program by coincidence. Highly recommend to all software engineers!

The book is good, but if you are a seasoned(and good) software engineer it will not add much to your knowledge, it says a lot of things tech leaders/architects should already know.I would recommend this book to mid developers(Juniors are one step behind to start worrying with the content of this book)

Un excelente libro, un Must para programadores sin importar tu tecnología, lenguaje, edad o ideología. Es bastante actual a pesar de los años, de los pocos libros de programación que merece comprar. Es algo así como la biblia de los programadores

Though its an old book some of the topics are relevant even today. Must for the one in programming business I would say.

The book is nice and contains good advice. I think it speaks for the book that a lot of the advice has become more common knowledge in recent years. This does mean that for experienced programmers it might not contains too many surprises, but at the same time it means that it is very solid advice for beginner / intermediary programmers.

Agréalement surpris par le contenu et la véracité par rapport à nos jours.Il y a plein de bons conseils et de bon sens qui sont diffusés dans ce livre, beaucoup de bons principes sur le comportement à adopter, ou les bonnes pratiques globales de Code, Broken Window, Dry, POC (qu'ils nomment Bullet Tracer),etc.Une bonne et simple lecture qui touche probablement tous les types de développeurs (et peut potentiellement être adapté à d'autres métiers également)