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Pragmatic Programmer, The: From Journeyman to Master

Pragmatic Programmer, The: From Journeyman to Master

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