February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
7h 29m
English
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Preface
This book contains stories about building software tools.
If you write software on a daily basis, you realize the act of writing software is the craft of creating tools. Software is nothing more than a tool. A spreadsheet is fundamentally a tool to add and subtract numbers. A video game is fundamentally a tool to alleviate boredom. Almost immediately after people started writing software tools we then discovered we needed more tools to permit us to write the tools we set out to build in the first place. Let’s call these tools that are strictly to support writing software (rather than software tools for the general population) meta-tools.
One of the most important meta-tools in the software development world is Git. Git is a meta-tool that helps software developers manage the complexity that comes from writing software. Git allows software developers to store snapshots of their programs (and then easily restore those snapshots if necessary) and to easily collaborate with other programmers (a surprisingly complicated problem). Git is called a source code management (SCM) tool and though there were many other SCMs before Git, Git has taken the software world by storm like no other before it and now dominates the SCM landscape.
GitHub is a company that saw the immense potential of Git early on and built a layer of web services on top of the existing features found in Git. Not surprisingly, one of the factors behind its success was that GitHub employees embraced the ethos of ...
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