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The Other Half of Coding

What they Didn't Teach You

Max Guernsey, III

Ever wonder why things get harder over time? You were only taught half of coding. Learn the other half and reverse code rot.

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It doesn't have to be this hard.

Ever wonder why software systems seem to decay over time? Even when teams follow the best practices — TDD, Design Patterns, DDD, Behavior-Driven Development, and so on — it seems like the system always gets harder to work with.

It's not that the best practices don't work. It's just that they only address half the problem. All of these disciplines make the promise "If you do this today, things will be easier tomorrow"... but none of them actually give much advice about what to do when tomorrow comes (as it does every morning).

That's the other half of coding: not what you code, but how you code it.

The Other Half of Coding will show you what’s been missing all along — why software decays, how to stop it, and how to complete your skill set so you can write code that stands the test of time.

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Object-Oriented ProgrammingSoftware EngineeringRefactoringTest-Driven Development

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Max Guernsey, III

With nearly three decades of experience in the professional world and years of experience growing up as a second-generation programmer, Max Guernsey, III is an expert in refactoring, TDD, BDD, advanced software design, and a myriad other software development disciplines and practices. He has helped organizations both large and small overhaul their technical practices as well as mentored dozens of individuals from non-developers to VPs of Engineering.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. The Gaping Hole

Introduction

Change

What’s Missing

  1. What Stands in Our Way

The Root of Decay

Why Designs Rot

Decline

Powerful Tools Can Become Crutches

  1. The Solution

A New Ontology

Related Works

Principle: Design-First

Principle: Pathfinding

Principle: Transformation of Code

Principle: Abort & Retry

Flow

  1. Skills

My Little Puzzle

Recursive Disaggregation of Changes

The Power of Duplication

Compounding Changes

Puzzle-Solving

  1. Mechanisms

Foundation

Refactoring

Clever Use of High-Bandwidth Refactoring Tools

Fastidious Application of Automated Transformation

Careful Misuse of Low-Bandwidth Tools

Exploitation of Language Features

Using TDD to Prove Interchangeability

Favoring Transformation Priorities

Using TDD to Constrain Behavioral Changes

  1. Context

Patience

Requirements Maturation

The Other Half of Patience

Rewiring your Habits with Deliberate Undos

Investment in Practice

It’s Up to You

  1. Backmatter

Appendix A: Search Page Code

Appendix B: Adoption Reference

Appendix C: Getting Others Onboard

Glossary

Bibliography

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