Reading Time: 3 minutes So sorry this took a while to post, but let’s dive into the last chapter for The Pragmatic Programmer! As always, thank you to Ari Caplan of Dev Empathy Bookclub for letting me use questions from the book club. If you are looking for an awesome group of people to discuss books that can help…
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The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 7 Notes and Questions
Reading Time: 2 minutes Notes on Chapter 7, Before the Project All about what to do before starting a project. Seems like it is pre-agile methodologies. Since the agile manifesto came out 2001 seems to fit that timeline. Dig for requirements, don’t gather. They are on not the surface but deep under assumptions. A requirement is a statement of…
The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 6 Notes and Questions
Reading Time: 2 minutes So my engineering bookclub is continuing on with Chapter 6 in The Pragmatic Programmer. We have had some stops and starts along the way. For chapters 4 and 5 we ended up combing the weeks because none of us were really feeling discussing chapter 4 (Pragmatic Paranoia). We did have to move Chapter 6 from…
The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 5 Notes
Reading Time: 2 minutes For our beginning notes to review and discuss for our book club choice, The Pragmatic Programmer, I used notes from Joe Hallenbeck. This was great for the first 4 chapters, but then I had to put in some work and start taking my own notes. These were just to help jog the memory for discussion…
Engineering Bookclub – The Pragmatic Programmer
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m leading a book club at my workplace, Flywheel . We are working through “The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Published in 1999 this books walks through techniques and tips to level up your development. Even being published more than 20 years ago (😱) there are plenty of…