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Principles of Package Design: Creating Reusable Software Components
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Principles of Package Design: Creating Reusable Software Components

by Matthias Noback
November 2018
Beginner
287 pages
5h 57m
English
Apress
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Part IClass Design

Class Design

Developers like you and I need help making our decisions: we have incredibly many choices to make, each day, all day. So if there are some principles we think are sound, we happily follow them. Principles are guidelines, or “things you should do”. There is no real imperative there. You are not required to follow these principles, but in theory you should.

When it comes to creating classes, there are many guidelines you should follow, like: choose descriptive names, keep the number of variables low, use few control structures, etc. But these are actually quite general programming guidelines. They will keep your code readable, understandable, and therefore maintainable. Also, they are quite specific, so your team may ...

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