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The Pragmatic Programmer is written as 46 small sections, each section ranging from two to ten pages long. Sprinkled through these sections there are 70 tips: one-line statements of best practice that the authors try to live by daily. Addison Wesley has kindly allowed them to make available some sections from the book and a complete, annotated list of tips. Also included here are many excellent articles explaning and detailing the process of software development.

Extracts from the books, The Pragmatic Programmer:

• The preface, just to give you an idea of what we're trying to do in the book.
• What triggers the decay of perfectly good software? We discuss what we believe is the major cause in Software Entropy.
• Are your programs relying on luck to work? Sometimes you might be surprised. Read about programming deliberately and Programming by Coincidence.
• In Evil Wizards, we discuss the problems inherent in relying on the code produced by wizards (such as those found in most moderns IDEs).
• In a world of increasingly complex code, resource management is crucial. Yet still our programs leak memory, leave files open, and generally fail to tidy up after themselves. Balance Resources looks at some simple techniques which will make our programs better citizens.

70 Programming Tips from the book, The Pragmatic Programmer

Articles and Presentations from the authors of the book, The Pragmatic Programmer, here are some of these:

• Practice (pdf)
• Nurturing Requirements (pdf)
• Three Legs, No Wobble (pdf)
• Pipelines (pdf)
• Preparing the Raw Material (pdf)
• Verbing the Noun (pdf)
• The Art of Enbugging (pdf)
• The Art in Programming (pdf)
• Programming in Ruby (pdf)

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