Alice BartlettinFT Product & TechnologyThe Pragmatic Programmer book club finaleBack in August I wrote that we had started a book club to meet more of my colleagues and we that were going to read the 20th Anniversary…Jan 4, 2023Jan 4, 2023
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 9This book ends with Pragmatic Projects. This chapter kind of pulls together bits from the previous 8 chapters into a full project view. As…Dec 15, 2022Dec 15, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 8Before the project — After last week’s chapter about things to do while you are coding, this week we’re back into things to do around the…Dec 15, 2022Dec 15, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 6Sometime around October I had to take a break from leading the book club because my time got so extremely constrained that I could no…Dec 12, 2022Dec 12, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 5Chapter 5 — bend, or break. We’ve hit the much more practical programming advice, although perhaps the advice is not always easily…Oct 7, 2022Oct 7, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 4Chapter four, pragmatic paranoia. Now we’re getting into some more abstract and academic topics. Things we could think about introducing…Sep 15, 2022Sep 15, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 3I thought this was a pretty unchallenging chapter. Thanks in part to the success of this book, the sections (on the importance of plain…Sep 1, 2022Sep 1, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 2We split chapter 2: A pragmatic approach across two weeks in order to stick to our limit of one hour of reading and 45 minutes of…Aug 30, 2022Aug 30, 2022
Alice BartlettPragmatic Book Club: Chapter 1The point of these blog posts is that you, a stranger on the internet, can also run a book club with your pals. So while it’s tempting to…Aug 3, 2022Aug 3, 2022