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New Programmer's Survival Manual
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New Programmer's Survival Manual

by Joshua D. Carter
November 2011
Beginner
258 pages
5h 1m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Structure of This Book

This book is written in small mini-chapters, called tips, that are designed to address a single topic within a few pages. Some are longer by necessity. Related tips are close together, but you can read them in any order. If you’re going for the big picture, go ahead and read it from cover to cover. But feel free to flip around—when tips need to reference each other, that’s stated explicitly in the text.

We start close to the code: Chapter 1, Program for Production starts from your programming talent and gives you guidance on making it production-ready. Nobody wants to ship buggy code, but it’s especially challenging on industrial-scale projects to ensure that your code is correct and well-tested.

Next, Chapter 2, Get ...

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