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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:  14 reviews
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Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Pages: 279
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1934356050
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781934356050
ASIN: 1934356050
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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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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 Good book for any programmer to incease his programming acumen... November 29, 2008
Manoj Ramesh Joshi (Mumbai)
the concepts are very clear ad concisely given.The book is also very well organized. you need not follow the normal start to end approach that we all have to read a book,but still the pages contain a lot of good information that is useful for any software developer to go with.
try this book for once , you will definitely help yourself good ... !!!
The brain's own "Missing Manual" November 27, 2008
Thomas Robinson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As with the original book under Hunt's name, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, this book offers well-referenced, high level advice without devolving into the preachy behavior of a self-help novella.
The book bills itself as "DIY Brain Surgery," and offers methods that actually work in practice, through this reviewer's own experiences. In addition, this book forms a large body of theory and makes a great deal of references to brain behavior in programming terms. These references may resonate with the owners of the original Pragmatic Programmer, but may put off others.
However, one need not be a programmer to make use of the practices and information found in this book. Holding the DIY elements completely aside, the material found in this book is well referenced and offers a significant amount of psychological theory for any trade dealing with people and their behavior. The black swan,* of course, is optional.
* See references in this book to The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning:Refactor your Wetware November 25, 2008
Phyllis M. Newnham (Sydney Australia)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
A very instructive and enlightening book on the ways we can change our thinking and learning skills. The brain is a wonderful organ.
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.
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