[HN Gopher] Tidy First?
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Tidy First?
Author : ingve
Score : 17 points
Date : 2024-01-10 19:59 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| Toutouxc wrote:
| Would anyone else recommend the book?
| azemetre wrote:
| I would under the condition you have never read or heard about
| refactoring. If you're expecting thorough techniques, you won't
| find them. They're literally single page chapters where the
| advice might be "move functions near their argument
| declarations." It's very basic, but the content is quite ever
| green. It's something that should be included in every employee
| handbook and often feels like trying to change SWE culture to
| one of "fix then ship." I'm really curious what Beck's other
| books in this series will be.
|
| I'm about halfway thru, can't comment on the last third which
| is different and offers a newish mental model.
|
| tldr: Good but expensive for the content amount. Should be $15
| IMO.
| loevborg wrote:
| It's funny. The last third is where it gets interesting. And
| then it stops - to be continued in the next volume. Except
| that Volume I is only 100 pages, and many of them blank.
| azemetre wrote:
| That's really exciting to hear. I hope I didn't come across
| as negative in my view. I am enjoying the book immensely
| but so far doesn't seem too different than other
| refactoring books.
| thanatos519 wrote:
| I haven't read it but it sounds like it gives names to and
| elucidates a lot of the stuff I am doing these days so I will
| read it soon.
| gregdoesit wrote:
| For anyone interested in reading full chapters of the book (all
| are relatively short!), here are three full ones [1], shared with
| the permission of the author (Kent Beck) and publisher
| (O'Reilly).
|
| [1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/dead-code-
| getting...
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