Chapter 13. Sane Software Design
I have come up with an analogy that should make the basic principles of software design understandable to everybody. The great thing about this analogy is that it covers basically everything there is to know about software design.
Imagine that you are building a structure out of lead bars. The final structure will look like this:
You have to build the structure and put it up at a certain location, so that people can use it for something.
The lead bars represent the individual pieces of your software. Putting it up at the location is like putting your software into production (or sending it out to your users). Everything ...
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