The Pragmatic Programmer

A talk to incentive coders to be more pragmatic.

1. The Pragmatic Programmer
3. Critical Thinking
6. Provide options, don’t make lame excuses
7. “The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak” J.B. Bossuet
8. Everybody is learning
9. Don’t live with broken windows
11. DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself
12. “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system” The Pragmatic Programmer
13. When you don’t follow the DRY principle • Increase debugging difficult • Have to change the same code twice • Increase redundancy • More time to develop a new feature • Refactor to fix your code • ... DRY
14. Catalyst for change
16. Invest in your knowledge portfolio
17. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest” Benjamin Franklin
18. Invest in your knowledge portfolio • invest regularly  • diversify • buy low, sell high • manage risk  • review and rebalance 
19. Communicate
20. “A large part of our day is spent communicating, so we need to do it well” The Pragmatic Programmer
21. Ideas to better communicating • know/plan what you want to say • write an outline • ask yourself: Does this get across whatever I’m trying to say? Refine it until it does • know your audience, understand the needs interests and capabilities of your audience
22. Know more than one language
23. “The limits of languages influence how you think about a problem” The Pragmatic Programmer
24. Use one editor well
25. Choose an editor, know it well, and use it for all editing tasks.
26. Good editors have the following features • configurable • extensible • programmable
28. Want more?