Refactoring de la mort avec Thomas Pierrain

The Pragmatic Programmer is a book that centers on how to use software to solve problems effectively and how to grow as a developer pragmatically. It was first published in 1999 and a 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 2019. The book emphasizes key qualities such as being an early adopter, having fast adaptation, inquisitiveness, critical thinking, realism, and being a jack-of-all-trades. It uses analogies and short stories to present development methodologies and caveats, including concepts like DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), and rubber duck debugging. The book covers topics such as writing clean code, estimating software delivery, instituting change, combating stagnancy, and making software processes resilient and efficient through automation and testing.

This book, now in its second edition, provides a detailed catalog of refactoring techniques. It explains how to identify 'code smells' and apply behavior-preserving transformations to improve the design and maintainability of software. The book includes examples in Java and JavaScript, and it emphasizes the importance of testing and small, incremental changes to minimize the risk of introducing errors. The second edition reflects the changes in the programming landscape over the past two decades and includes new examples and techniques.