Taken straight from practice, the book The Pragmatic Programmer bypasses the increasing specialization and technical details of modern software development, and examines the fundamental process - the transformation of a requirement into functional, maintainable code that satisfies its users.

It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques aimed at keeping your code flexible, easily adaptable, and reusable.

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