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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Kevlin Henney · 4 HN comments
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Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in this book, you'll expand your skills by adopting new approaches to old problems, learning appropriate best practices, and honing your craft through sound advice. With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry--including Michael Feathers, Pete Goodliffe, Diomidis Spinellis, Cay Horstmann, Verity Stob, and many more--this book contains practical knowledge and principles that you can apply to all kinds of projects. A few of the 97 things you should know: "Code in the Language of the Domain" by Dan North "Write Tests for People" by Gerard Meszaros "Convenience Is Not an -ility" by Gregor Hohpe "Know Your IDE" by Heinz Kabutz "A Message to the Future" by Linda Rising "The Boy Scout Rule" by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) "Beware the Share" by Udi Dahan
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> 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

> Any programmer wishing to be a great programmer should read this! https://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know/d...

This book is an assemblage of short papers running on themes as different as Bugs, Error Handling, Customers, Refactoring, and Expertise.

The motivation behind the short exposition isn't to address every one of your inquiries or be an authoritative manual for programming.

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It's a wiki page, but it's also a book [1]. I have an actual paper copy, and I would highly recommend it. I've seen several of the authors give talks, most were good. Kevlin Henney (the Editor) was particularly so.

However I shall also treat the data from your deep experience with all due reverence.

1] http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know/dp...

it is a book. http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know/dp...
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Yes, that much is obvious! what I meant, but it seems wasn't very clear about is that I wish they'd said this in the title of this blog / HN post.
This is the official site for an O'Reilly book that came out recently. The contents of the book can be found on this page: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contri...

Here's the book's Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know/dp...

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