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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
Topic 51
Pragmatic Starter Kit

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.

Alfred North Whitehead

Back when cars were a novelty, the instructions for starting a Model-T Ford were more than two pages long. With modern cars, you just push a button—the starting procedure is automatic and foolproof. A person following a list of instructions might flood the engine, but the automatic starter won't.

Although software development is still an industry at the Model-T stage, we can't afford to go through two pages of instructions again and again for some common operation. Whether it is the build and release procedure, testing, project paperwork, or any other recurring task on the project, it has ...

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