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Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
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Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

by Micah Martin, Robert C. Martin
July 2006
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
16h 43m
English
Pearson
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6. A Programming Episode

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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

—Bjarne Stroustrup, 1991

In order to demonstrate agile programming practices, Bob Koss (RSK) and Bob Martin (RCM) will pair program a simple application while you watch like a fly on the wall. We will use test-driven development and a lot of refactoring to create our application. What follows is a pretty faithful reenactment of a programming episode that the two Bobs did in a hotel room in late 2000.

We made lots of mistakes while doing this. Some of the mistakes are in code, some are in logic, some are in design, and some ...

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