97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Contents xix Refactoring and Code Care Act with Prudence ...............................2 Before You Refactor .................. ...

xx Contents Simplicity Beauty Is in Simplicity .............................10 Learn to Say, “Hello, World”. ................... ...

Contents xxi Tools, Automation, and Development Environments Automate Your Coding Standard ......................8 Check Your Co ...

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xxiii The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the en ...

xxiv Preface Permissions The licensing of each contribution follows a nonrestrictive, open source model. Every contribution is f ...

Preface^1 titles before they are available for print, and get exclusive access to manuscripts in development and post feedback f ...

(^2) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Act with Prudence Seb Rose Whatever you undertake, act with prudence and consider th ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 3 There are times when you must incur technical debt to meet a deadline or implement a thin s ...

(^4) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Apply Functional Programming Principles Edward Garson FNALNCTU iO PROGRAMMiNG has re ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 5 However, with astute test-driven design, particularly when being sure to “Mock Roles, not O ...

(^6) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Ask, “What Would the User Do?” (You Are Not the User) ...... Giles Colborne WE ALL T ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 7 You’ll see users getting stuck. When you get stuck, you look around. When users get stuck, ...

(^8) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Automate Your Coding Standard Filip van Laenen YOU’VE PROBABLY BEEN THERE, TOO. At t ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 9 There exists a wealth of tools that can be used to produce code quality reports and to docu ...

(^10) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Beauty Is in Simplicity ............................. Jørn Ølmheim THERE iS ONE qUO ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 11 Think about source code that you have studied. If you haven’t spent time studying other pe ...

(^12) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Before You Refactor Rajith Attapattu AT SOME POiNT, every programmer will need to r ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 13 fter each development iteration, it is important to ensure that the existing A tests pass ...

(^14) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Beware the Share Udi Dahan iTAS W MY FiRST PROjECT AT THE COMPANY. I’d just finishe ...