2 Iterate to achieve good design
This chapter covers
- An iterative development strategy to achieve a well-designed application
- Backtracking to recover from bad design decisions
- Design principles to improve code
The development path to a well-designed application is almost never straight and narrow. As described in chapter 1, we should not have marathon coding sessions and then count on a magical Big Bang finish.
A much more rewarding development strategy takes an iterative approach. Each iteration builds on the accomplishments of the previous one. Such a strategy is more likely to result in a successful well-designed application.
The example ...
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