The pragmatic Programmer Sermon

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The pragmatic Programmer Sermon

• Tim Wingfield

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• Care about your craft.
• THINK! About your work.
• Provide Options. Dont make Lame excuses.

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• Dont live with broken windows
• Make quality a requirements issue.
• Invest regularly in your knowledge portfolio.

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• Make it easy to reuse.
• DRY Dont Repeat Yourself
• Eliminate effects between unrelated things.

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• Fix the Problem, Not the Blame.

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• Dont Panic when debugging.
• select isnt broken.
• Dont assume it Prove it.

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• Write code that writes code.
• Design with contracts.
• Crash early.

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• Dont program by coincidence.
• Refactor early, refactor often.
• Design to test.

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• Test your software, your users will.
• Test Early. Test Often. Test Automatically.
• Find bugs once.

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• Sign your work.

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• Email tim_at_timwingfield.com
• Blog blog.timwingfield.com