The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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Today I want share with you my notes after read the following book:
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master.

Opinions

• Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change - Kent Beck book
• Refactoring and UML version 2.0 - Martin Fowler book
• Kevin Ruland
• John Lakos
• Eric Cought
• Pete McBreen
• Jared Richardson
• Chris Cleveland

Introduce word

• QWAN

Preface

• Who should read this book?
• Advice no. 1
  Take care of your craftsmanship.
• Advice no. 2
  You should think about what you are doing.
• Tools:
  • LaTeX
  • Pic
  • Perl programming language
  • Dvips
  • Ghostview
  • Ispell
  • GNU make
  • CVS
  • Emacs
  • XEmacs
  • egcs
  • GCC Compiler
  • Java programming language
  • iContract
  • SmallEiffel
  • Bash shell
  • Z shell
  • Linux

Chapter 1

• Najwiekszą słabością jest strach przed strach przed wygladaniem na słabego - J. B. Bossuet - Politics from Holy Writ
• Kot zjadł mój kod źródłowy
• Advice no. 3
  Offer solutions instead of using lame excuses.
• Entropia oprogramowania
• Software rot
• Advice no. 4
  Do not accept any broken glass.
• Zupa z kamieni i gotowane żaby
• Advice no. 5
  Be a catalyst for change.
• Advice no. 6
  Remember the broader context.
• Odpowiednio dobre oprogramowanie
• Advice no. 7
  Quality should be included in the requirements.
• Portfolio wiedzy
• Advice no. 8
  Invest in your knowledge portfolio regularly.
• Advice no. 9
  Watch with a critical eye what you read and hear.
• Komunikuj się
• Advice no. 10
  It is not only what we say but how we say it that matters.

Chapter 2

• Przekleństwo powielania
• Advice no. 11
  Don’t Repeat Yourself.
• COBRA technology
• Advice no. 12
  You should take care of the possibility of reusing the code.
• Ortogonalność
• Advice no. 13
  The mutual influence of unrelated elements should be eliminated.
• MVC (Model - View - Controller)
• RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
• AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming)
• Design Patterns book
• Odwracalność
• Propos sur la religion book - Emil-Auguste Charter
• Advice no. 14
  There are no final decisions.
• Pociski smugowe
• Advice no. 15
  Find your target with tracers.
• Advice no. 16
  Prototypes should be built with science in mind.
• Programming languages and tools:
  • TCL/Tk
  • Visual Basic programming language
  • PowerBuilder
  • Delphi programming language
  • SWIG
  • YACC compiler - the bison (free YACC compiler implementation)
  • JavaCC compiler
  • Screen Scraping
  • Expect.JS - open source minimalistic assertions tool
• Języki dziedzinowe
• Advice no. 17
  Program as close to the problem area as possible.
• Backus-Naur Form - BNF
• Lex and YACC book
• Szacowanie
• Advice no. 18
  Estimating avoids unpleasant surprises.
• Advice no. 19
  The schedule and code should be iterative.
• Powinnismy pomoc przełożonym w zrozumieniu, że o harmonogramie prac decyduje zespół, jego produktywność i otoczenie, w którym pracuje.

Chapter 3

• ‘Każdy rzemieślnik rozpoczyna pracę od skompletowania podstawowego zestawu narzędzi odpowiednio wysokiej jakości’.
• ‘In lepsze są nasze narzędzia i im lepiej potrafimy ich używać , tym większa może być nasza produktywność.’
• awk, perl, python
• Potęga zwykłego tekstu
• XML, SGML, HTML
• Advice no. 20
  Knowledge should be written in plain text.
• MD5 checksum
• diff, fc, sum
• Shells
• WYSIWYG
• WYSIAWYG
• Advice no. 21
  Use the potential of shell commands.
• Cygwin
• UWIN
• Tom Christiansen - Perl Power Tools
• Efektywna edycja
• Advice no. 22
  One editor should be well-mastered.
• emacs, vi, crisp, brief
• Source code control
• George Santayana - Life of Reason book
• Life of Reason - George Santayana book
• Advice no. 23
  A source code control system should always be used.
• sccs, rcs, cvs
• Advice no. 24
  You have to solve problems, don’t look for the culprit.
• Advice no. 25
  Don’t panic.
• DDD Debugger
• Perl programming language
• Greg Purge
• Advice no. 26
  The select call works.
• Advice no. 27
  You shouldn’t assume anything - you should prove it.
• Python, Tcl, Perl
• Inżynieria oprogramowania - Kernighan book
• Advice no. 28
  One language that works with the text should be mastered.
• Advice no. 29
  You should write code that writes code.

Chapter 4

• Advice no. 30
  Writing great software is impossible.
• Projektowanie kontraktowe (ang.) design by contract - DBC
• Eiffel programming language
• Advice no. 31
  Design should be based on contracts.
• Eiffel programming language
• Sather programming language
• Nana preprocessor (C and C++)
• iContract (Java)
• Martwe programy nie kłamią
• Advice no. 32
  Failures should occur as early as possible.
• Programowanie asertywne
• Advice no. 33
  If something can’t happen, use an assertion to ensure it doesn’t actually happen.
• Kiedy używać wyjątków
• Advice no. 34
  Exceptions should be used for exceptional problems.
• Jak zrównoważyć zasoby
• Advice no. 35
  What begins should be completed.
• Pufiry software
• Insure++ software

Chapter 5

• Izolacja i prawo Demeter
• Advice no. 36
  Relationships between modules should be minimized.
• C++. Projektowanie systemów informatycznych. Vademecum profesjonalisty - John Lakos book
• Metaprogramowanie
• Ósme prawo Levy’iego
• Advice no. 37
  Should be configured, not integrated.
• Advice no. 38
  The code should contain abstractions; details should be included in the metadata.
• Enterprise Java Beans
• Advice no. 39
  It’s a good idea to analyze your workflow to improve concurrency based on that.
• OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing
• Hungry Consumer
• Advice no. 40
  You should design by using services.
• Programowanie przez koincydencję
• Advice no. 41
  Always design with concurrency in mind.
• To tylko widok
• Observer Design Pattern
• CORBA Event Service
• MVC - Model View Controller
• Advice no. 42
  Separate views from models.
• Tablice
• JavaSpaces
• T Spaces
• Linda programming language
• Advice no. 43
  You should use arrays to coordinate your workflow.

Chapter 6

• Programowanie przez koincydencję
• Advice no. 44
  Do not program by coincidence.
• Szybkość algorytmu
• Notacja wielkiego O.
• Advice no. 45
  You should estimate the orders of magnitude of the algorithms.
• Advice no. 46
  Be sure to test your estimates.
• Robert Sedgewich book series
• Sztuka programowania - Donald Knuth book
• www.pragmaticprogrammer.com - sort functions examples
• Refaktoryzacja
• Advice no. 47
  Refactoring should be done as early and as often as possible.
• Refaktoryzacja. Ulepszanie infrastruktury istniejącego kodu book
• Testy regresji
• Kod łatwy do testowania
• IC - (ang.) Integratic Circuit
• Object-Oriented Programming - Coks, Novobilski book
• BIST - (ang.) Built-In Self Test
• TAM - Test Access Mechanism
• Unit Test
• Regression Test
• Advice no. 48
  Design with testing in mind.
• Perl programming language
• Refections in Java Programming Language
• xUnit - Kent Beck and Erich Gammy tool
• JUnit tool
• Web Server Survey (news.netcraft.com/archives)
• Advice no. 49
  Test your software; otherwise our users will.
• Złe kreatory
• IBM 3270 Terminal
• OLE
• MDI
• SDI
• Advice no. 50
  Don’t use wizards to build code that you don’t understand.

Chapter 7

• Kopalnia wymagań
• Ziemia, planeta ludzi - Antoine de St. Exupéry book
• Advice no. 51
  Requirements should not be collected - they should be retrieved from hiding.
• Advice no. 52
  To think like a user, you need to work with them.
• Przypadki użycia - Use cases
• Alistair Cockburn
• Advice no. 53
  Abstractions live longer than details.
• Advice no. 54
  The project glossary should be used.
• Rozwiązywanie niemożliwych do rozwiązania łamigłówek
• Advice no. 55
  You should not go beyond the pattern in your thoughts - rather, find this pattern.
• Nie, dopóki nie jesteś gotowy
• Advice no. 56
  Listen to persistent doubts - don’t start work until you are ready.
• Pułapka specyfikacji
• Advice no. 57
  Some things are better to do than talk about.
• Okręgi i strzałki
• Advice no. 58
  We cannot be slaves to formal methods.
• Robert Glass
• Advice no. 59
  Expensive tools don’t generate better designs.

Chapter 8

• Pragmatyczne zespoły
• The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction book
• Advice no. 60
  Work should be organized around the functions being implemented, not the positions held.
• Wszechobecna automatyzacja
• Advice no. 61
  Manual procedures should not be used.
• CACM magazine
• Robert Glass article in CACM article
• cron tool
• Bezlitosne testy
• Advice no. 62
  You should test early. Should be tested frequently. Should be tested automatically.
• Advice no. 63
  The coding is not complete until all the tests are done.
• Testy:
  • Jednostkowe
  • Integracyjne
  • Sprawdzanie poprawności i weryfikacja
  • Wyczerpywanie zasobów, błędy i odzyskiwanie
  • Wydajnościowe
  • Użyteczności
• Ograniczone zasoby:
  • Pamięć
  • Przestrzeń dyskowa
  • Wydajność procesora
  • Czas
  • Wydajność dysku
  • Przepustowość sieci
  • Paleta kolorów
  • Rozdzielczość ekranu
• Advice no. 64
  Use sabotage techniques to test the tests.
• Test tests by making a break in code.
• Tools to analyze how much source code is covered by tests.
• Advice no. 65
  You should test state coverage, not code coverage.
• Aegis - source code version control system
• ‘make test’ command
• Advice no. 66
  You only need to find each bug once.
• Test source code automatically without GUI
• Pisanie przede wszystkim
• Donald Knuth - connect documentation with source code
• JavaDoc - Sun company tool
• Advice no. 67
  Polish should be treated as one more programming language.
• user’s Guidep
• Advice no. 68
  The documentation is part of the product, not an accessory.
• Put in code comments why something has been done - not how.
• When you put in code how you implemented it you violate DRY rule.
• Variables names should be intuitive.
• Stroop effect
• RCS system
• DOC++ tool
• When in project information about database table exist in SQL command, documentation and tool for manage database scheme it is DRY rule violation.
• HTML, LaTeX, troff
• Perl programming language
• XSL - eXtensible Style Language
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
• DocBook tool
• SGML language
• DSSSL language
• RTF file
• TeX file
• INFO file
• PostScript file
• HTML file
• Wielkie oczekiwania
• Jeremiasz 2:12
• Advice no. 69
  Users’ expectations should be slightly exceeded.
• During adding a little function to the application we could do:
  • Pomoc w postaci chmurek lub podręcznych podpowiedzi
  • Skróty klawiszowe
  • Krótki przewodnik jako uzupełnienie standardowego podręcznika użytkownika
  • Wyróżnianie kolorami
  • Analizatory pliku dziennika
  • Automatyczna instalacja
  • Narzędzia do sprawdzania integralności systemu
  • Możliwość uruchamiania wielu wersji systemu na potrzeby szkolenia
  • Ekran powitalny z grafiką wskazaną przez organizację
• Duma i uprzedzenie
• “Zachwycałeś nas dostatecznie długo” - “Duma i uprzedzenie” - Jane Austen book
• Advice no. 70
  Sign the results of your work.
• Kent Beck
• XP (ang. eXtreme Programming) methodology

Appendix A

• Pragmatic Developer still learning
• IEEE organization - www.acm.org
• ACM organization - www.computer.org
• www.pragmaticprogrammer.com
• BCS organization
• Magazines
  • IEEE Computer
  • IEEE Software
  • Communications of the ACM
  • SIGPLAN
  • Dr. Dobbs Journal
  • The Perl Journal
  • Software Development Magazine
• Books
  • Analiza i projektowanie
    • Programowanie zorientowane obiektowo - Bertrand Meyer book
    • Wzorce projektowe. Elementy oprogramowania obiektowego wielokrotnego użytku - Erich Gamma, Richard Hełm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides book
    • Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models Martin Fowler book
• Teams and Projects
  • The Mythical Man Mouth - Fred Brooks book
  • Dynamics of Software Development book
  • Surviving Object-Oriented Projects: A Manager’s Guide - Alistair Cockburn book
• Environments
  • Unix
    • Programowanie w środowisku systemu UNIX - W. Richard Stevens book
    • UNIX Programowanie usług - W. Richard Stevens book
  • Windows
    • Win32 System Services - Marshall Brains book
    • Programming Windows - Charles Petzold book
    • C++
      • C++. 50 efektywnych sposobów na udoskonalenie Twoich programów - Scott Meyers book
      • Język C++ bardziej efektywny - Scott Meyers book
      • C++. Projektowanie systemów informatycznych. Vademecum profesjonalisty - John Lakos book
      • C++. Styl i technika zaawansowanego programowania - Jim Coplien book
      • Nutshell - O’Reilly book
      • Almanach - Helion book
• Internet
  • Slashdot - web service
  • Cetus Links - web service with links with object oriented topics
  • WikiWikiWeb - design patterns service - www.c2.com
• Internet resources
• Editors
  • Emacs
    • Emacs
    • XEmacs
  • vi
    • Vim
    • Elvis
    • Viper mode for Emacs editor
• Compilers, languages and development tools
  • GCC compiler - www.gcc.gnu.org
  • Java programming language - www.java.sun.com
  • Perl programming language - www.perl.com
  • Python programming language - www.python.org
  • SmallEiffel programming language - www.smarteiffel.loria.fr
  • ISE Eiffel - www.eiffel.com
  • Sather programming language - www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~sather
  • Common Lisp programming language
  • CLU programming language
  • Scheme programming language
  • C programming language
  • C++ programming language
  • Fortran programming language
  • VisualWorks
  • Squeak programming language
  • TOM programming language
  • Objective-C programming language
  • Beowulf project
  • iContract - contract programming software for Java
  • Nana project
  • DDD (ang. Data Display Debugger)
  • John Brant software - browser with refactoring fiction
  • DOC++ - Documentation generator
  • xUnit - unit tests framework
  • TCL programming language
  • Expect - based on Tcl programming language tool for interaction with applications
  • T Spaces - communication buffer for solutions based on databases
  • javaCC (ang. Java Compiler-Compiler) - syntax analyzer generator
  • bison - syntax analyzers generator
  • swig - development tool to connect C, C++ and Objective-C applications with Perl, Python, Tcl, Tk, Java, Eiffel, Guile and many other way
  • Guile programming language
  • The Object Management Group Inc
  • The organization which secure object oriented fuzzy systems
  • CORBA
  • IIOP
• Narzędzia systemu UNIX w systemie DOS
  • UWIN tool - www.gtlinc.com/products/UWIN
  • Global Technologies Inc
  • Cygwin software
  • Cygnus Solutions
  • Perl Power Tools
• Narzędzia do kontroli kodu źródłowego
  • RCS - www.prep.ai.mit.edu
  • CVS - www.nongnu.org/cvs
  • Aegis - www.aefis.sourceforce.net
  • Clearcase - www.rational.com
  • MKS Source Integrity - www.mks.com
  • PVCS configurations management - www.merant.com
  • Visual SourceSafe - www.microsoft.com
  • Perforce - www.perforce.com
• Pozostałe narzędzia
  • WinZip
  • Powłoka Z
  • Samba
• Artykuły i publikacje
  • comp.object Group FAQ section - www.cyberdyne-object-sys.com/oofaq2
  • Extreme Programming - www.xprogramming.com
  • Chrysler C3 project
  • Smalltalk programming language
  • Alistair Cockburn homepage - www.members.aol.com/acockburn
  • Martin Fowler homepage - www.ourworld.computerserve.com/homepages/martin_fowler
  • Analysis Patterns book
  • UML w kropelce, wersja 2.0 book
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
  • Robert C. Martin homepage - www.objectmentor.com
  • Aspect Programming - www.aosd.net
  • JavaSpaces specification - www.jini.org.wiki/JavaSpaces_Specificarion
  • Linda system
  • Java programming language
  • Netspace web browser - www.mozilla.org
  • The Jargon File - www.catb.org/Jargon/HTML
  • Eric S. Raymond
  • Eric S. Raymond’s articles - www.catb.org/~esr/writings
  • The Cathedral and the Bazar article
  • Homesteading the Noosphere article
  • Open source environment
  • K Desktop Environment
  • Gnu Image Manipulation Program - www.gimp.org
  • Demeter project - www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter
  • the adaptive programming
• Różne
  • GNU Project
  • Free Software Foundation
  • Web Server Survey - www.news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/05/02/may-2011-web-server-survey.html

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• C++. Styl i technika zaawansowanego programowania - James O. Coplien
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• Assuring good style for object-oriented programs - Karl J. Lieberherr, Ian Holland
• Data abstraction and hierarchy - Barbara Liskov
• Lex and Yacc - John R. Levine, Tony Mason, Doug Brown
• Dynamics of Software Development - Jim McCarthy
• Język C++ bardziej efektywny - Scott Meyers
• C++ . 50 efektywnych sposobów na udoskonalenie Twoich programów - Scott Meyers
• Programowanie zorientowane obiektowo - Bertrand Meyer
• Programming Windows, The Definitive Guide to the Win32 API - Charles Petzold
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• Algorytmy w C++ - Robert Sedgewich
• An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms - Robert Sedgewich, Philippe Flajolet
• Programowanie w środowisku systemu UNIX - W. Richard Stevens
• UNIX programowanie usług sieciowych, tom II: API: gniazda i XTI - W. Richard Stevens
• UNIX programowanie usług sieciowych, tom II: Komunikacja miedzyprocesowa - W. Richard Stevens
• Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions - James Ridley Stroop
• Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS - Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt
• The police and neighborhood safety - James Q. Wilson, George Telling
• Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design - Edward Yourdon, Larry L. Constantine
• Managing projects to produce goodenough software - Edward Yourdon

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