Programming Beyond Practices

Writing code is the easy part of your work as a software developer. This practical book lets you explore the other 90%—everything from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping to business analysis and designing for maintainability. Instead of providing neatly packaged advice from on high, author Gregory Brown presents detailed examples of the many problems developers encoun...

Writing code is the easy part of your work as a software developer. This practical book lets you explore the other 90%—everything from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping to business analysis and designing for maintainability. Instead of providing neatly packaged advice from on high, author Gregory Brown presents detailed examples of the many problems developers encounter, including the thought process it takes to solve them.He does this in an unusual and entertaining fashion by making you the main character in a series of chapter-length stories. As these stories progress, the examples become more complex, and your responsibilities increase. Together, these stories take you on a journey that will make you question and refine the way you think about, and work on, software projects.Steps in this unique journey include:Using prototypes to explore project ideasSpotting hidden dependencies in incremental changesIdentifying the pain points of service integrationsDeveloping a rigorous approach towards problem-solvingDesigning software from the bottom upData modeling in an imperfect worldGradual process improvement as an antidote for over-commitmentThe future of software development

作者介绍

Gregory T. Brown，期刊Practicing Ruby出版人；非常流行的PDF生成库Prawn PDF的原作者；IT咨询顾问，帮助过各种规模的公司确定核心业务问题，力求以最少的代码解决问题。

译者介绍

李志，1995年生于山东济南。目前在西安交通大学人工智能与机器人研究所从事计算机视觉相关研究，同时在西安交通大学软件学院攻读软件工程硕士学位。本科毕业于西安交通大学外国语学院英语系，英语专业八级，同时具备英语语言文学功底和计算机专业知识。