[HN Gopher] The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (...
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       The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)
        
       Author : ahalbert2
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2025-11-16 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | rendleflag wrote:
       | I bought the first edition when it came out. I was just 3 years
       | into my SW development career and it provided a lot of good
       | advise. I bought the second edition and enjoyed it, but the first
       | edition had a special place in my heart.
        
       | hamasho wrote:
       | When I started a programming job, I read this book, Clean Code,
       | and Code Complete. Code Complete is kinda old but still great,
       | Clean Code is not bad but it's Java centric and has a lot of
       | questionable tips. But The Pragmatic Programmer never gets old.
        
       | r2ob wrote:
       | The best programmer book i've ever read
        
       | dripton wrote:
       | A great book, but I read it too late, after I had already learned
       | pretty much everything it says the hard way. So it was one of
       | those books I enjoyed because it reinforced what I already
       | thought, but didn't really get much from. Wish it had been
       | written a decade earlier.
        
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