The pragmatic programmer from journeyman to master is a book about computer programming and software engineering written by andrew hunt and david thomas and published in october 1999 it is used as a textbook in related university courses it was the first in a series of books under the label the pragmatic bookshelf. Most programmers arrive at the so called tricks of the trade over time through independent experimentation in the pragmatic programmer andrew hunt and david thomas codify many of the truths theyve discovered during their respective careers as designers of software and writers of code. Most programmers arrive at the so called tricks of the trade over time through independent experimentation in the pragmatic programmer andrew hunt and david thomas codify many of the truths theyve discovered during their respective careers as designers of software and writers of code. Straight from the programming trenches the pragmatic programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process taking a requirement and producing working maintainable code that delights its users