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mattlui 's review for:
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
A carefully selected list of software engineering tips. Compelling and plainly laid-out arguments for making successful software projects. Some tips are dogmatic and controversial but each chapter is thought-provoking at least and behaviour-changing at most.
Surprisingly, I thought the weakest tips were ones that brought up specific code or language features. You can tell the authors have thought long and hard about how the perfect software engineer would behave. Each tip had me thinking and challenging my assumptions and I think many will be valuable to remember or refer back to later.
I would also definitely recommend reading the 20th-anniversary edition. It has some useful reflections on how the first edition was interpreted and revisits the DRY principle.
Surprisingly, I thought the weakest tips were ones that brought up specific code or language features. You can tell the authors have thought long and hard about how the perfect software engineer would behave. Each tip had me thinking and challenging my assumptions and I think many will be valuable to remember or refer back to later.
I would also definitely recommend reading the 20th-anniversary edition. It has some useful reflections on how the first edition was interpreted and revisits the DRY principle.