Название: Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering (Final)
Автор: Mark Seemann
Издательство: Pearson/Addison-Wesley
Год: 2022
Страниц: 416
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 23.1 MB

How to Reduce Code Complexity and Develop Software More Sustainably.

Code That Fits in Your Head offers indispensable, practical advice for writing code at a sustainable pace and controlling the complexity that causes projects to spin out of control.

Reflecting decades of experience helping software teams succeed, Mark Seemann guides you from zero (no code) to deployed features and shows how to maintain a good cruising speed as you add functionality, address cross-cutting concerns, troubleshoot, and optimize. You'll find valuable ideas, practices, and processes for key issues ranging from checklists to teamwork, encapsulation to decomposition, API design to unit testing.

Seemann illuminates his insights with code examples drawn from a complete sample project. Written in C#, they're designed to be clear and useful to anyone who uses any object-oriented language including Java , C++, and Python. To facilitate deeper exploration, all code and extensive commit messages are available for download.

Choose mindsets and processes that work, and escape bad metaphors that don't

Use checklists to liberate yourself, improving outcomes with the skills you already have

Get past analysis paralysis by creating and deploying a vertical slice of your application

Counteract forces that lead to code rot and unnecessary complexity

Master better techniques for changing code behavior

Discover ways to solve code problems more quickly and effectively

Think more productively about performance and security

If you've ever suffered through bad projects or had to cope with unmaintainable legacy code, this guide will help you make things better next time and every time.

Who Should Read This Book:
This book is aimed at programmers with at least a few years of professional experience. I expect readers to have suffered through a few bad software development projects; to have experience with unmaintainable code. I also expect readers seeking to improve.
The core audience is ‘enterprise developers’—particularly back-end developers. I’ve spent most of my career in that realm, so this simply reflects my own expertise. But if you’re a front-end developer, a games programmer, a development tools engineer, or something else entirely, I expect you will still gain a lot from reading this book. You should be comfortable reading code in a compiled, object-oriented language in the C family. While I’ve been a C# programmer for most of my career, I’ve learned a lot from books with example code in C++ or Java. This book turns the tables: Its example code is in C#, but I hope that Java, TypeScript, or C++ developers find it useful, too.

Prerequisites:
This isn’t a beginner’s book. While it deals with how to organise and structure source code, it doesn’t cover the most basic details. I expect that you already understand why indentation is helpful, why long methods are problematic, that global variables are bad, and so on. I don’t expect you to have read Code Complete, but I assume that you know of some of the basics covered there.

"Mark Seemann is well known for explaining complex concepts clearly and thoroughly. In this book he condenses his wide-ranging software development experience into a set of practical, pragmatic techniques for writing sustainable and human-friendly code. This book will be a must-read for every programmer." --Scott Wlaschin, author of Domain Modeling Made Functional