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The original version The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt has been an extremely influential book for me and (without a shadow of a doubt) many others. However, although a large amount of the essence of the book is still relevant today, most of the technological references are very much outdated. The authors recognise this:
But 20 years is many lifetimes in terms of software. Take a developer from 1999 and drop them into a team today, and they’d struggle in this strange new world. But the world of the 1990s is equally foreign to today’s developer. The book’s references to things such as CORBA, CASE tools, and indexed loops were at best quaint and more likely confusing.
-- "Preface to the Second Edition" The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition
And in my opinion this SHOULD be the first book for a developer to read.
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Just for anyone interest The Pragmatic Progammer book had its 20th anniversary edition, that have a more fresh and update view of todays world.
Taken from another dev.to post:
And in my opinion this SHOULD be the first book for a developer to read.