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

The audio version is also amazing

I already have the book, but I bought this audible version so I could review and elaborate on topics from time to time, as this is one of the few works that will stand valid for years. I think is great to be able to review some chapter a while running.

Too Many Voices

Perhaps I am just used to the more traditional audio books with a single narrator, but the constant swapping of voices is very distracting.

also, I could do without all the silly sound effects and music

Great book!

Great book! Audio quality was very good! I think is a must for every software developer!

Awesomeness

Awesome narration, I highly recommend for aspiring software engineers and/or career developers. Would definitely supplement your knowledge in software engineering and working in teams.

Best Nonfiction Book Ever

Really a piece of performance art, not just the reading of the words that we always get. Clearly loads of hours were put in to make this audible book a rich, vibrant experience.

Good job gang!

Go to school on this Audible.

Every developer should listen it

The audiobook is full of wisdom for programmers, presented in clear concepts, good examples and great practical tips. The performance is easy to follow even for a non native English speaker.
I totally recommend it .

Finally

I have been meaning to read this book and finally was able to by just listening to while I was working.

just amazing amounts of experience and wisdom condensed.

The value of this book may not be quantifiable. The combined 80 years of experience in the field, condensed, articulated, and organized was well worth the time. I was worried that being a programming book listening to it as opposed to reading it would make it a waste of time. I was wrong. Though I'm not sold on the notion we should not use inheritance or subclasses.. <3 Cheers gentlemen. Amazing work.

good for beginners

Not a lot of jargon. I was able to listen casually in my car. Also, as a beginner, I found this book easy to follow.

Practical book

Detailed and practical book with 100 tips that are nice for a beginner coder like me to know about.