Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
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By Beck Kent
Paperback – English
ISBN: 1098151240
EAN: 9781098151249
Publisher: OREILLY MEDIA
Publication Date: 28/11/2023
Pages: 122
Dimension: 22.86cm x 17.53cm x 0.76cm
Age Group: NA to NA
Grades: Not Applicable to Not Applicable
Lexile Level: 0
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About Author: Beck Kent
Kent Beck, one of the software industry’s most creative and acclaimed leaders, consistently challenges software engineering dogma and promotes ideas like patterns, test-driven development, and Extreme Programming. Currently affiliated with Three Rivers Institute and Agitar Software, he is the author of many Addison-Wesley titles, including “Test-Driven Development” (2003) and, with Cynthia Andres, “Extreme Programming Explained, Second Edition” (2005).
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Computers – Computer Architecture
Computers – Programming – General
Computers – Software Development & Engineering – Systems Analysis & Design
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By Beck Kent
Paperback – English
Messy code is a nuisance. “Tidying” code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings to improve your code while keeping the overall structure of the system in mind.
Instead of trying to master tidying all at once, this book lets you try out a few examples that make sense for your problem. If you have a big function containing many lines of code, you’ll learn how to logically divide it into smaller chunks. Along the way, you’ll learn the theory behind software design: coupling, cohesion, discounted cash flows, and optionality.
This book helps you:
– Understand the basic theory of how software design works and the forces that act on it
– Explore the difference between changes to a system’s behavior and changes to its structure
– Improve your programming experience by sometimes tidying first and sometimes tidying after
– Learn how to make large changes in small, safe steps
– Approach software design as an exercise in human relationships
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