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Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
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Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering

by Mark Seemann
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The first part of this book is loosely structured around a programming narrative. The code examples all follow an example code base, from creation of the first file, to completion of the first feature.

In the beginning, you’ll see detailed explanations of changes to the code. As the chapters progress, I’ll skip some details. The purpose of the code examples is to give you a context for the various practices and techniques being introduced.

If I’ve skipped a detail that you’d like to know more about, you can consult the Git repository that accompanies the book. Each code listing is tagged with the commit ID that identifies the source.

The history of the commits that belong to this part is quite polished. If you read through that ...

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ISBN: 9780137464302