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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Basic Tools

Every person starts his journey with a set of tools. Tools are inevitable for performing any task at its best. You may find one tool good for you, which helps you to improve your skills with the same. Tools help you to improve your talents.

The better your tools, and the better you know how to use them, the more productive you can be.

But tools shouldn’t be always the same. Sometimes, we may find some tools can do better than the ones we are using presently. At such situations, we have to take decision to adapt the change. This happens in software development also. Developers may stick to the same tool or IDE as they don’t want to leave its cozy interface. This is completely  wrong. We have to be comfortable beyond the restrictions and limits imposed by the IDE. The only way to do this is to keep the basic tool set sharp and ready to use.

We’ll start with the the basic tools used in software development..

- summary of The Basic Tools - Introduction, from The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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