The Pragmatic Programmer

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Critical Thinking

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Provide options, don’t make lame excuses

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“The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak” J.B. Bossuet

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Everybody is learning

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Don’t live with broken windows

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DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself

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“Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system” The Pragmatic Programmer

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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

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Catalyst for change

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Invest in your knowledge portfolio

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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest” Benjamin Franklin

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Invest in your knowledge portfolio ● invest regularly ● diversify ● buy low, sell high ● manage risk ● review and rebalance

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Communicate

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“A large part of our day is spent communicating, so we need to do it well” The Pragmatic Programmer

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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

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Know more than one language

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“The limits of languages influence how you think about a problem” The Pragmatic Programmer

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Use one editor well

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Choose an editor, know it well, and use it for all editing tasks.

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Good editors have the following features ● configurable ● extensible ● programmable

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