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Understanding Software
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Understanding Software

by Max Kanat-Alexander
September 2017
Beginner
278 pages
4h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
Audiobook available
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We followed all the Laws Of Software Design

  • We thought about the future. We did that for the entire process, but we particularly did it when we put on unbreakable steel ropes that would last no matter what happened in the future.

    Also note that we didn't try to predict the future, we just followed our principles so that no matter what happened, our structure was going to stay together and be easy to build.

  • We allowed for change by screwing the bars together instead of welding them. We also put standardized holes in all the bars, even if we didn't need them, in case we needed to add more bars in the future.
  • In every step of creating the structure, we kept our changes small and tested everything as we went. Creating each individual bar was a small ...
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