From the foreword that the book you want to tell us in a way we are able to follow the program, this could be the gospel every programmer's it, there should "think about your work," think a reasonable and efficient solution program, I hope that by reading this book, can be more results-oriented and have some ideas for programming, "paper come Zhongjue, must know this practice is essential", in the future good practice is the recipe.
Since the program came into contact with, the programming is an abstract existence, it is not true, "Programming is an art", "programming can be attributed to let the computer do something for you (or your users) want to do," by programming some of it practical ideas or functions become program, mentioned in the book of "pragmatic programmer" should be the early adopters / quick adapter, critical thinkers, should be curious, have a sense of reality, versatile.
'Rise and fall, everyone is responsible ", responsible, simple word but it is something we have long held to be the responsibility we should take the initiative burden of things, whether the result is good or bad, should take the responsibility, as it pleased, also lost calm, responsible for the code come from our fingertips, honest to admit mistakes, and try to give various options ---- offer a variety of options, do not look lame excuse.
"Do not tolerate broken windows" --- "Do not keep the 'broken windows' (poor design, bad decisions, or poor code) do not repair found a repair on a. If there is not enough time to properly repair, to use wood and nailed it up. maybe you can put into the wrong code, or display "not implemented" message, or be replaced with dummy data. take some action to prevent further damage and to explain the situation at under your control. "If we can as a preventive measure, we can reduce the number of major losses.
The success or failure of software or not, depends largely on the user's view, to "let your users to participate in a trade-off", but be aware of advance and retreat, to know when to stop, not superfluous. For us, at this stage, in the era of knowledge economy, intellectual capital has become particularly important, believe it will be eliminated this society, the author clearly put forward their views and suggestions, as I pointed out the direction.