The Romanian Dream » pseudo scientific http://theromaniandream.com/blog the green green grass Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:09:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/11/11/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning/ http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/11/11/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:59:35 +0000 Mircea http://theromaniandream.com/blog/?p=488
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    • ]]>     Just finished reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt, a book that I found to be a little confusing to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed reading it, found certain parts of it to be of value but personally I don’t think anyone today has a complete understanding on how the human brain works (wetware is just a fancy way of saying brain). So the book, as a whole, seems a bit of pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo mixed with some facts and experiments that we all can relate to. It also has a somewhat pseudo scientific starting point in the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition but don’t let this fool you.

    I think that the author manages to get with this mostly because he’s also the author of another book, which already has entered the real of legend: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. You can see that the term pragmatic is strongly “overloaded”.

    Anyway, if you ever have the chance to pick up the book and browse it please do. But I wouldn’t rely very much on the points made there and I would take everything with a grain of salt.

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