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Books by Kent Beck mentioned on podcasts
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Refactoring
Refactoring by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts is a foundational software engineering text that explores how to improve the design of existing code and make maintainability more manageable.
Critiqued“can just include a thing that's basically like hey um you know there's performance issues but most of the time it's not a problem or something like that which is you know or if you look at uh refactoring the book refactoring very popular”
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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck is a classic programming guide that details granular techniques for structuring methods, classes, and clean code.
Recommended“Small Talk Best Practices is my number one recommendation for any programmer who want to learn the nitty-gritty of how to structure a method and a class and the rest of it. Small Talk Best Practices, which is Kent's book from 95, I think, or 96, is to this day my favorite book of all time on tactical programming uh”
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Tidy First?
Tidy First? by Kent Beck is a software development book that explores the philosophy and practice of small, deliberate structural changes to codebases to improve maintainability before tackling larger feature implementations.
Recommended“And then I also enjoyed Kent Beck's tidy first book. It's a really thin book, but I just like how crisp every single idea is, even though like that book might be a bit less relevant when you're writing a bit less code”
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Extreme Programming Explained
Discussed“So Kent Beck is the author of Extreme Programming, one of the heretical software methodologies back in the '90s”
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Test-driven Development
Discussed“And then when did TDD come along? Because there was a book that you you wrote that came out, I think two years later, uh, test-driven development by example. And how did it relate to XP?”
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