Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 013476904X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
and M.S. Beck is the author/co-author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide<
This book presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers have learned the hard way. The concept of Smalltalk patterns is introduced, and the book explains why they work. Finally, the book walks through a development example utilizing patterns. For Smalltalk programmers, project managers, teachers and students -- both new and experienced. From the Publisher The real-world style guide for better Smalltalk programming. . Next, the book introduces proven patterns for working with methods, messages, state, collections, classes and formatting. When programmers understand these patterns, they can write much more effective code
Great for Communication this is one of the books that I reach for all the time. I use it to explain many concepts and I don't even write smalltalk. I have a hard copy and digital. I've also given a copy away as a gift. this is a must have when trying to build a common vernacular. It has improved communication of ideas for every team I've worked with.. Goosemeyer said The Zen of OO. I wish more Java/C#/C++ programmers would read this (and maybe even learn Smalltalk) so that they can appreciate the weaknesses in those languages and possibly in their practices that they might not even realize today. I certainly did. While Robert Martin and others have offered up some of the canon of good design for contemporary developers, this little gem really reveals the "feel" of good OO.. A Customer said Useful coding guidelines for beginners and the experienced. Before I read Kent's book, my team had a Smalltalk coding guidelines document, a boring, cluncky text that didn't seem to help beginners write good code (mostly there so project quality plans could reference it). After I read Kent's book, I wrote a few team-specific points in the margins and declared it our new coding guidelines document.Kent's book is a pleasant, readable mix of the obvious that beginners need to know and the clever that experienced Smalltalkers can still learn from. I was surprised at the absence of Booby Woolf's strategy for classifying instance variables (as id
This book presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience of successful Smalltalk programmers. This author presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers have learned the hard way. The concept of Smalltalk patterns is introduced, and the book explains why they work. Next, the book introduces proven patterns for working with methods, messages, state, collections, classes and formatting. When programmers understand these patterns, they can write much more effective code. For programmers, proje