June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 55m
English
book
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts
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References
[Auer]
Auer, Ken. “Reusability through Self-Encapsulation.” In Pattern Languages of Program Design 1, edited by J.O. Coplien and D.C. Schmidt. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Patterns paper on the concept of self-encapsulation.
[Bäumer and Riehle]
Bäumer, Dirk, and Dirk Riehle. “Product Trader.” In Pattern Languages of Program Design 3, edited by R. Martin, F. Buschmann, and D. Riehle. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998.
A pattern for flexibly creating objects without knowing in what class they should be.
[Beck]
Beck, Kent. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1997a.
An essential book for any Smalltalker, and a damn useful book for any object-oriented developer. Rumors of a Java version ...
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