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Apprenticeship Patterns

Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman

By
Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
October 2009
Pages:
176
Description
Are you doing all you can to further your career as a software developer? With today's rapidly changing and ever-expanding technologies, being successful requires more than technical expertise. To grow professionally, you also need soft skills and effective learning techniques. Apprenticeship Patterns cataloges dozens of behavior patterns to help you perfect essential aspects of your craft. Compiled from years of research, many interviews, and feedback from O'Reilly's online forum, these patterns address difficult situations that programmers, administrators, and DBAs face every day.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. What Is Software Craftsmanship?

    2. What Is Apprenticeship?

    3. What Is an Apprenticeship Pattern?

    4. Where Did the Patterns Come From?

    5. Where Do We Go from Here?

  2. Chapter 2 Emptying the Cup

    1. Your First Language

    2. The White Belt

    3. Unleash Your Enthusiasm

    4. Concrete Skills

    5. Expose Your Ignorance

    6. Confront Your Ignorance

    7. The Deep End

    8. Retreat into Competence

    9. Wrapping Up

  3. Chapter 3 Walking the Long Road

    1. The Long Road

    2. Craft over Art

    3. Sustainable Motivations

    4. Nurture Your Passion

    5. Draw Your Own Map

    6. Use Your Title

    7. Stay in the Trenches

    8. A Different Road

    9. Wrapping Up

  4. Chapter 4 Accurate Self-Assessment

    1. Be the Worst

    2. Find Mentors

    3. Kindred Spirits

    4. Rubbing Elbows

    5. Sweep the Floor

    6. Wrapping Up

  5. Chapter 5 Perpetual Learning

    1. Expand Your Bandwidth

    2. Practice, Practice, Practice

    3. Breakable Toys

    4. Use the Source

    5. Reflect As You Work

    6. Record What You Learn

    7. Share What You Learn

    8. Create Feedback Loops

    9. Learn How You Fail

    10. Wrapping Up

  6. Chapter 6 Construct Your Curriculum

    1. Reading List

    2. Read Constantly

    3. Study the Classics

    4. Dig Deeper

    5. Familiar Tools

    6. Wrapping Up

  7. Chapter 7 Conclusion

  1. Appendix Pattern List

  2. Appendix A Call for Apprenticeship

  3. Appendix A Retrospective on the First Year of Obtiva’s Apprenticeship Program

  4. Appendix Online Resources

  5. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Apprenticeship Patterns
By:
Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
October 2009
Ebook Release:
October 2009
Pages:
176
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-51838-7
| ISBN 10:
0-596-51838-2
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-80938-6
| ISBN 10:
0-596-80938-7
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About the Authors

  1. Dave Hoover

    Dave Hoover is the Chief Craftsman at Obtiva where he helps lead Obtiva's Software Studio and apprenticeship program. Dave has been developing software since 2000, when he left a career in child and family therapy. In 2002, Dave read Pete McBreen's "Software Craftsmanship", which re-framed Dave's understanding of software development and how people become great software developers. Dave has become increasingly passionate about learning and has dedicated several years of his career to thinking, writing, and speaking about apprenticeship. Over the last couple years, on most days, you'd find Dave coding Ruby and Rails as the lead developer for Mad Mimi, one of his clients at Obtiva. Dave also enjoys all sorts of endurance sports.

    View Dave Hoover's full profile page.

  2. Adewale Oshineye

    Adewale Oshineye is an engineer at a little-known search engine named Google. This is a consequence of many deeply geeky evenings spent programming 8-bit computers when he was a child. When he grew up Adewale somehow fell into IT consultancy. His career at consultancies such as Thoughtworks gave him the chance to work on projects ranging from point-of-sale systems for electrical retailers to trading systems for investment banks. It also gave him a chance to learn from some of the most interesting software craftspeople in Western Europe. In those rare moments when he's not in front of a computer he can be found behind a digital camera somewhere in London.

    View Adewale Oshineye's full profile page.

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