The Pragmatic Programmer
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (ISBN 0-201-61622-X) is a book about software engineering by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, published in October, 1999. It has been praised by programmers for being insightful.
Characteristics of a Pragmatic Programmer: (prefix 18-19)
- Early adopter / fast adapter
- Inquisitive
- Critical Thinker
- Realistic
- Jack of all trades
- Care About Your Craft
- Think! About Your Work
The authors also went on to write about the Ruby programming language in the book Programming Ruby and Agile Web Development with Rails, a book on Ruby on Rails which also touches on Ajax and the Ruby programming language.
[edit] Series
The book is the first in a series of books under the Pragmatic Programmers label and copyright The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
Books in the series (partial list):
- Agile Web Development with Rails
- Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit
- Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit
- Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion
- Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
- Ship It! A Practical Guide To Successful Software Projects
