Exploring Extreme Programming
Pragmatic Guide to Git, by Travis Swicegood. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010. I’m using git for the first time on a small project with a friend, and wanted a quick focused handbook to help with that. This book fills that bill. Continue reading Review – Pragmatic Guide to Git (Swicegood)
How does the order of tests affect the design of software? A game to explore that idea. Continue reading Tests from a Hat
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, ISBN 0-321-50362-7 Freeman and Pryce explain Test-Driven Development through an extended example. (They have a somewhat different perspective than I do, with much heavier use of mock objects. Continue reading Review – Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
Structured Design. Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine. Prentice-Hall, 1979. This was one of the early structured “standard works” that I’ve only just gotten to for the first time. I’d learned things like coupling and cohesion, afferent and efferent flows, Continue reading Review – Structured Design
Interview with Bill Wake and Kevin Rutherford, the authors of Refactoring in Ruby. Continue reading Refactoring in Ruby – InformIT Interview
Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg. 1989, Dorset House. This book is an exploration not just of gathering requirements, including the challenges of ambiguity. The authors describe how to clarify expectations by using functions, attributes, Continue reading Review – Exploring Requirements
A word-stack puzzle on programming languages. Continue reading Programming Language Puzzle
Clean Code, Bob Martin, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Bob Martin tackles the challenges of making code sparkling clean. He provides numerous guidelines, and demonstrates their utility in action. I particularly appreciated some of the longer examples where he really works them over. Continue reading Review – Clean Code
Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume 4: Data Structuring, Raymond T. Yeh, editor. Prentice-Hall, 1978. In parallel with “structured programming,” (which often focused on code structure), there was more esoteric work done on “structured data.” A lot of this found Continue reading Review – Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Vol. 4: Data Structuring
Sudoku is a fairly well-known type of puzzle. Solving it turns out to be easier than I expected, but a somewhat odd example of test-driven development. Continue reading Sudoku Solver