Tips And Checklists From The Pragmatic Programmer

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