Tidy First?, 9781098151249
Paperback
Tidy code now or later? A practical guide to better design.

Tidy First?

a personal exercise in empirical software design

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  • Paperback

    125 pages

  • Release Date

    28 November 2023

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Summary

Tidy First?: A Practical Guide to Refactoring for Readability

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 let…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781098151249
ISBN-10:1098151240
Author:Kent Beck
Publisher:O'Reilly Media
Imprint:O'Reilly Media
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:125
Release Date:28 November 2023
Weight:230g
Dimensions:233mm x 178mm
About The Author

Kent Beck

Kent Beck is a programmer, creator of Extreme Programming, pioneer of software patterns, co-author of JUnit, rediscoverer of Test-Driven Development, 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract and now the Tidy First? series of books on software design. Beck is also alphabetically the first signatory of the Agile Manifesto. He lives in San Francisco, California and works for Studio Beck, teaching skills helping geeks feel safe in the world.

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