Read "The Pragmatic Programmer"

The courier arrived with The Book while I was at work, but thankfully the Property Management company for my condominium signed for it.

And so here I sit, at home on a Tuesday evening, with my very own copy of The Pragmatic Programmer.

After reading some reviews on the web, I was worried that the typesetting would be poor, but all the grousing is unwarranted.

The copy I have is professionally printed and well laid out with a good mix of white space and text.

Since I am starting out on a new project, I think that I will read Chapter 7 on specifications first.

The Toronto Public Library does not have a copy of The Pragmatic Programmer so I went ahead and bought a copy on Amazon. I chose free shipping, so it will probably be a week before it arrives.

I still can’t stop thinking of one of the free extracts on the book’s website. I usually am disappointed when I can get a program to run on my development PC, only to discover that it fails to load, much less run, on a regular user’s PC. I fear I may be guilty of Programming By Coincidence.

If it were not for this website, I would not know about this book.

Intrigued with the eighty or so people wishing to read this book, I checked for the website.

The main page did not convince me, but the extracts did. If my local library does not have a copy already, I will buy one.