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Software Engineering Made Easy: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Writing Good Code
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Software Engineering Made Easy: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Writing Good Code

by Marco Gähler
June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
299 pages
10h 33m
English
Apress
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M. GählerSoftware Engineering Made Easyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1386-3_5

5. Design Principles

Marco Gähler1  
(1)
Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
 

There are several design principles that one should adhere to, with the most renowned being the SOLID principles formulated by Robert C. Martin. The significance of the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP, see p. 13) cannot be overstated. However, for interpreted languages, the relevance of the other principles has diminished considerably. Nevertheless, they remain valuable to understand, particularly if you are working with a compiled language.

Besides the SOLID principles, we discuss several other guidelines ...

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