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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) | 
 enlarge | Author: Andy Hunt
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 2362
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Pages: 279
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1934356050
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781934356050
ASIN: 1934356050
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Together we'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll discover some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and see how you can beat the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. In this book you'll learn how to:
Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes Avoid common "known bugs" in your mind Learn more deliberately and more effectively Manage knowledge more efficiently Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. It's time to take a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning, and start to refactor-and redesign-your brain.
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Excellent from Cover to Cover November 21, 2008
J. Pease (Odessa, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.
Without a doubt our brain is the most complex, intriguing and powerful "tool" we have at our disposal. This book has the goal of helping it's readers make better use of that tool by leveraging it's strengths and supporting it's weaknesses. I'm not going to go into detail discussing the content, just read it yourself! I will say that, in my opinion, this book delivered on what it set out to do.
At 250 pages I felt the material was covered well, without getting lost in excessive detail or losing momentum.
While reading the book was fun, I am really looking forward to putting these ideas into practice. Really, you should read this.
A recommended read November 18, 2008
Sergey Karayev (Seattle, WA USA)
I'm only halfway through the book, and while I can't assure you that the techniques therein work wonders, I will recommend this book as an interesting, enlightening read that certainly made me think differently about my usual problem-solving and creative behavior. A warning: the book is definitely geared toward software developers, and a lot of the metaphors and idioms will not make sense to a reader with a different background.
Loved! Pragmatic Thinking and Learning November 10, 2008
Leigh Mackay (Victoria Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really enjoyed the book, Andy's insight and research really hit home for me. After reading it "consider the context" has become my mantra, knowing the Dreyfus Model has given me good insight into the different stages of learning and I've even bought some fresh colour pencils to start Mind Mapping. The book is chocful of practical examples that are fun and sometimes down right amazing... especially the shutting down of your L-mode and drawing that upside down man with your R-mode! This book really does give you all the tools you'll need to learn faster and explains things in fine detail to give you the big picture. Andy also has a good sense of humor so It's not a boring book about the mind, It's an action packed brain sharpener that every programmer, teacher and researcher should read this weekend.
One of the best books of thinking November 8, 2008
Binfelsd
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Clearly, direct and with a lot of annotations and sidebars for help readers. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning show you different ways to understand and use our mind, every day and every moment. For any person from computer programmers to knowledge workers this book will be equally amazing and invaluable!.
Inspiration for the technically oriented November 7, 2008
G. Pease (UT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoying learning and thinking, they are some of the activities that lead me into software development in the first place. I was very interested to find this book on two of my favorite subjects and gave it a try.
Not all of the ideas are new. I do a few things that are mentioned and have done some others in the past. The real value to me was the new idea juxtaposed with the things I'm familiar with and a better overall perspective of the thinking and learning process.
Some of the more interesting bits, to me, were how to engage more of the non logical parts of my brain in my thinking, debugging the mind, the use of the Dreyfus Model of skills, the use of mind maps and some of the general organizational tools.
I encourage everyone in the software industry to pick the book up and give it a try. There is one small problem with the book, if you could call it that. Following the principle of writing what you know about, the book includes many examples geared enough towards software engineering that I'm can't recommend my parents should buy a copy. Though, I might loan them mine for a little while and see if my work will buy me another copy.
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