Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

by Kent Beck

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings to improve your code while keeping the overall structure of the system in mind.

Instead of trying to master tidying all at once, this book lets you try out a few examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1098151240
• ISBN13: 9781098151249
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 9.0"