The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

Your Journey to Mastery

By: David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

Narrated by: Anna Katarina

The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those rare tech audiobooks you’ll listen, re-listen, and listen to again over the years. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you’ll come away with fresh insights each and every time.

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories.

Now, 20 years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. All the old favorite topics are there, updated for this new world. And there's a bunch of new content, reflecting what we've learned in the intervening years.

Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You’ll become a pragmatic programmer.

This audiobook is organized as a series of sections, each containing a series of topics. It is read by Anna Katarina; Dave and Andy (and a few other folks) jump in every now and then to give their take on things.

©2019 Pearson Education, Inc (P)2020 David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

Great Listen

Easy listen, helpful topics. there was some code involved that they link to a GitHub (I never looked at it) but it was not essential to usnertanding the message of each snippet of code.

good reference

good reference for practical programming. updated 2019. tried and true approaches. extreme programming, agile, and other development methodologies.

A must for every developer

This is such a great book in every aspect.

Loaded with an abundance of language agnostic useful approaches and ways of thinking you can apply in every project and programming language. I cannot recommend this book enough. It's well divided in topics and very clearly worded and explained with a fine grain of humor here and there. The voice is very pleasant to listen to and is clear to understand.

As a developer I've read a load of books and this one is easily my favorite one.

A staple for the industry

The book itself is (or should be) mandatory reading for all developers or tradespeople in the IT industry. The content is without question a quality product, and as for the audio book itself it matches nicely with the format and the narrator provides a smooth voice to present complex topics.

A tactical guide to being a great developer

Most engineers will already know and do many of the advised practices, but almost all engineers can benefit from parts they haven't adopted or even forgot over time. Embracing and implementing the author's practices and philosophies is a solid path to honing one's craft. It's like a summary of retrospective learnings from careers of software development. Highly recommended.