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.

Characteristics of a Pragmatic Programmer: (prefix 18-19)

  • Early adopter / fast adapter
  • Inquisitive
  • Critical thinker
  • Realistic
  • Jack of all trades

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

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