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Tips And Checklists From The Pragmatic Programmer

Programmer tips

• Care About Your Craft

• Think! About Your Work

• Provide Options, Don\'t Make Lame Excuses

• Don \'t Live with Broken Windows

• Be a Catalyst for Change

• Remember the Big Picture

• Make Quality a Requirements Issue

• Invest Regularly in Your Knowledge Portfolio

• Critically Analyze What You Read and Hear

• It\'s Both What You Say and the Way You Say It

• DRY—Don \'t Repeat Yourself

• Make It Easy to Reuse

• Eleminate Effects Between Unrelated Things

• Use Tracer Bullets to Find the Target

• Prototype to Learn

• Program Close to the Problem Domain

• Configure, Don\'t Integrate

• Put Abstractions in code, details in metadata

• Always Design for Concurrency

• Don\'t Program by Coincidence

• Estimate the Order of Your Algorithm

• Fix the Problem, Not the Blame

• Don\'t Assume It—Prove It

• Write Code That Writes Code

• Use Assertions to Prevent the Impossible

• Minimize Coupling Between Modules

• Design to Test

• Don\'t Be a Slave to Formal Methods.

• Test Early. Test Often. Test Automatically

• Sign Your Work