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# The Pragmatic Programmer

Thomas, David, and Andrew Hunt. The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2019.

# Backlinks

  • Knowledge workers process knowledge into knowledge
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 74).
  • Ask for forgiveness, not permission
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p.9)
  • Ron Jeffries gave up TDD to solve sudoku
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (pp. 217-218).
  • Broken windows accelerates software entropy
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (pp. 6-7).
  • Code duplication can either be a knowledge duplication or similarities
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 34).
  • Software entropy
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 6).
  • DRY helps forgetting
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 31).
  • Tracer bullets
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 50).
  • Data structure can contain knowledge duplication
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 35).
  • ETC
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 29).
  • ETC can help architectural judgement
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 28).
  • Knowledge Portfolio
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (pp. 14-15).
  • No broken window maintains standard
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 8).
  • Prototype vs tracer bullet development
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 55).
  • Stone soup story
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 9)
  • Tracer bullet development works on the riskiest area first
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 51).
  • You can change your organisation or you can change your organisation
    • The Pragmatic Programmer (p. 1)