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97 things every programmer should know : collective wisdom from the experts
Title
97 things every programmer should know : collective wisdom from the experts / edited by Kevlin Henney.
ISBN
9781449388966
1449388965
9781449388676
1449388671
9780596809485
0596809484
9780596809515
0596809514
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 229 pages) : portraits
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Summary
97 short and extremely useful programming tips from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry, including Uncle Bob Martin, Scott Meyers, Dan North, Linda Rising, Udi Dahan, Neal Ford, and many more. They encourage you to stretch yourself by learning new languages, looking at problems in new ways, following specific practices, taking responsibility for your work, and becoming as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.
Variant and related titles
Ninety-seven things every programmer should know
O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: 97 things every programmer should know. 1st ed. Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2010
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2020
Contents
Act with Prudence / Seb Rose
Apply Functional Programming Principles / Edward Garson
Ask, "What Would the User Do?" (You Are Not the User) / Giles Colborne
Automate Your Coding Standard / Filip van Laenen
Beauty is in Simplicity / Jørn Ølmheim
Before You Refactor / Rajith Attapattu
Beware the Share / Udi Dahan
The Boy Scout Rule / Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Check Your Code First Before Looking to Blame Others / Allan Kelly
Choose Your Tools with Care / Giovanni Asproni
Code in the Language of the Domain / Dan North
Code Is Design / Ryan Brush
Code Layout Matters / Steve Freeman
Code Reviews / Mattias Karlsson
Coding with Reason / Yechiel Kimchi
A Comment on Comments / Cal Evans
Comment Only What the Code Cannot Say / Kevlin Henney
Continuous Learning / Clint Shank
Convenience Is Not an -ility / Gregor Hohpe
Deploy Early and Often / Steve Berczuk
Distinguish Business Exceptions from Technical / Dan Bergh Johnsson
Do Lots of Deliberate Practice / Jon Jagger
Domain-Specific Languages / Michael Hunger
Don't Be Afraid to Break Things / Mike Lewis
Don't Be Cute with Your Test Data / Rod Begbie
Don't Ignore That Error! / Pete Goodliffe
Don't Just Learn the Language, Understand the Culture / Anders Norås
Don't Nail Your Program into the Upright Position / Verity Stob
Don't Rely on "Magic Happens Here" / Alan Griffiths
Don't Repeat Yourself / Steve Smith
Don't Touch That Code / Cal Evans.
Encapsulate Behavior, Not Just State / Einar Landre
Floating-Point Numbers Aren't Real / Chuck Allison
Fulfill Your Ambitions with Open Source / Richard Monson-Haefel
The Golden Rule of API Design / Michael Feathers
The Guru Myth / Ryan Brush
Hard Work Does Not Pay Off / Olve Maudal
How to Use a Bug Tracker / Matt Doar
Improve Code by Removing It / Pete Goodliffe
Install Me / Marcus Baker
Interprocess Communication Affects Application Response Time / Randy Stafford
Keep the Build Clean / Johannes Brodwall
Know How to Use Command-Line Tools / Carroll Robinson
Know Well More Than Two Programming Languages / Russel Winder
Know Your IDE / Heinz Kabutz
Know Your Limits / Greg Colvin
Know Your Next Commit / Dan Bergh Johnsson
Large, Interconnected Data Belongs to a Database / Diomidis Spinellis
Learn Foreign Languages / Klaus Marquardt
Learn to Estimate / Giovanni Asproni
Learn to Say, "Hello, World" / Thomas Guest
Let Your Project Speak for Itself / Daniel Lindner
The Linker Is Not a Magical Program / Walter Bright
The Longevity of Interim Solutions / Klaus Marquardt
Make Interfaces Easy to Use Correctly and Hard to Use Incorrectly / Scott Meyers
Make the Invisible More Visible / Jon Jagger
Message Passing Leads to Better Scalability in Parallel Systems / Russel Winder
A Message to the Future / Linda Rising
Missing Opportunities for Polymorphism / Kirk Pepperdine
News of the Weird: Testers Are Your Friends / Burk Hufnagel.
One Binary / Steve Freeman
Only the Code Tells the Truth / Peter Sommerlad
Own (and Refractor) the Build / Steve Berczuk
Pair Program and Feel the Flow / Gudny Hauknes, Kari Røssland, and Ann Katrin Gagnat
Prefer Domain-Specific Types to Primitive Types / Einar Landre
Prevent Errors / Giles Colborne
The Professional Programmer / Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Put Everything Under Version Control / Diomidis Spinellis
Put the Mouse Down and Step Away from the Keyboard / Burk Hufnagel
Read Code / Karianne Berg
Read the Humanities / Keith Braithwaite
Reinvent the Wheel Often / Jason P. Sage
Resist the Temptation of the Singleton Pattern / Sam Saariste
The Road to Performance is Littered with Dirty Code Bombs / Kirk Pepperdine
Simplicity Comes from Reduction / Paul W. Homer
The Single Responsibility Principle / Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Start from Yes / Alex Miller
Step Back and Automate, Automate, Automate / Cay Horstmann
Take Advantage of Code Analysis Tools / Sarah Mount
Test for Required Behavior, Not Incidental Behavior / Kevlin Henney.
Test Precisely and Concretely / Kevlin Henney
Test While You Sleep (and over Weekends) / Rajith Attapattu
Testing is the Engineering Rigor of Software Development / Neal Ford
Thinking in States / Niclas Nilsson
Two Heads Are Often Better Than One / Adrian Wible
Two Wrongs Can Make a Right (and Are Difficult to Fix) / Allan Kelly
Ubuntu Coding for Your Friends / Aslam Khan
The Unix Tools Are Your Friends / Diomidis Spinellis
Use the Right Algorithm and Data Structure / Jan Christian "JC" van Winkel
Verbose Logging Will Disturb Your Sleep / Johannes Brodwall
WET Dilutes Performance Bottlenecks / Kirk Pepperdine
When Programmers and Testers Collaborate / Janet Gregory
Write Code As If You Had to Support It for the Rest of Your Life / Yuriy Zubarev
Write Small Functions Using Examples / Keith Braithwaite
Write Tests for People / Gerard Meszaros
You Gotta Care About the Code / Pete Goodliffe
Your Customers Do Not Mean What They Say / Nate Jackson.
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