A pragmatic investment plan (also know as pip), is a tool suggested by the pragmatic programmers to help us keep track of our learning process. You can learn more about this topic on the upcoming book pragmatic thinking and learning.
In this post i will show you my personal plan, so that you can get an idea of what it look loike and hopefully write your own and share with us.
GENERAL
- Attend at least one conference
- Start a blog
- Write one article per week
BOOKS TO READ AND REVIEW
- The mythical man month
- Pragmatic Thinking and learning
- SICP
- Developing web applications with rails 3
- From bash to z shell
- Javascript the good parts
- Javascript the definitive guide
- My job went to india
- Programming collective intelligence
- Sed & awk
- The search engine marketing kit
- The practice of programming
- Beautiful code
- The web developer hackers handbook
OPENSOURCE
- Contribute to one open source software
I ALSO WANT TO EXPLORE
- Software developent for mac os x and iphone
LANGUAGE OF THE YEAR
- Not sure, probably erlang or scheme (or both)
You can find another example of pragmatic investment plan here.
