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Table of Contents
00 – Introduction
01 – Software as a Profession (Sample available here)
02 – Out of the Closet – Patterns and Professionalism in Software Development
03 – The Nature of Software Development (Sample available here)
04 – Evolution in Code Stage 1
05 – Introduction to Patterns
06 – Building a Pyramid
07 – Paying Attention to Qualities and Pathologies
08 – Paying Attention to Principles and Wisdom (Chapter available here)
09 – Paying Attention to Practices
10 – Paying Attention to Disciplines – Unit Testing
11 – Paying Attention to Disciplines – Refactoring
12 – Test-Driven Development
13 – Patterns and Forces
14 – Emergent Design, a Case Study
15 – A Conclusion: 2020
Appendix A – Evolutionary Paths
Appendix B – Overview of Patterns Used in the Examples
Appendix C – The Principle of the Useful Illusion
Appendix D – For Further Reading
Errata:
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| 64 |
Figure 4.3 – The “uses” arrow between “LocalStatusSender” and “PagingStatusSender” should not be there |
| 77 |
Figure 5.7 caption: “No room” should be “Now room” |
| 84 |
The last line, “design to over-design”, should be desire to over-design |
| 111 |
In the box, the word safety appears twice in the wrong font |
| 112 |
2nd to last line, “were so were” should be “were so” |
| 116 |
Paragraph 8, final sentence says “drifted back to the right” when it should say “drifted back to the left” |
| 148 |
3rd line from the bottom, missing closing parenthesis after i++ |
| 159 |
7th line, delete the phrase “a function that is often problematic” |
| 208 |
Second Code Example, third line from the end, MockDAO should be mockDAO |
| 211 |
A closing brace is missing from the code example at the bottom of the page |
| 230 |
The “printReportLines” method and “calculateAverage” method should both take “ArrayList clines” as a parameter |
| 235 |
I write “At the end of this chapter, I will suggest some books I have found to get started. “. That list is in an appendix at the end of the book, not the chapter |
| 243 |
Figure 12.5, bottom right, box says “Strategy_V1Test” should be “Strategy_V2Test”. Same on the previous page in Figure 12.4 |
| 249 |
Figure 12.7, case B – Third circle should say DecB rather than DecA appearing twice |
| 285 |
Final paragraph, second sentence, “mange” should be “manage” |
| 286 |
All references to “Card” or “Cards” should be “Chip” or “Chips” |
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Caption to Figure A.6b, the word “Comples” should be “Complex” |
| 323 |
Figure B.12 – the first Handler should be “Handler1” rather than “Handler2” appearing twice |
| 326 |
Figure B.12 – the Handlers should not have void return type |
| 343 |
Figure B.26 – “DateInputStream” should be “DataInputStream” |
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