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Modern Programming: Object Oriented Programming and Best Practices

By : Graham Lee
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Modern Programming: Object Oriented Programming and Best Practices

By: Graham Lee

Overview of this book

Your experience and knowledge always influence the approach you take and the tools you use to write your programs. With a sound understanding of how to approach your goal and what software paradigms to use, you can create high-performing applications quickly and efficiently. In this two-part book, you’ll discover the untapped features of object-oriented programming and use it with other software tools to code fast and efficient applications. The first part of the book begins with a discussion on how OOP is used today and moves on to analyze the ideas and problems that OOP doesn’t address. It continues by deconstructing the complexity of OOP, showing you its fundamentally simple core. You’ll see that, by using the distinctive elements of OOP, you can learn to build your applications more easily. The next part of this book talks about acquiring the skills to become a better programmer. You’ll get an overview of how various tools, such as version control and build management, help make your life easier. This book also discusses the pros and cons of other programming paradigms, such as aspect-oriented programming and functional programming, and helps to select the correct approach for your projects. It ends by talking about the philosophy behind designing software and what it means to be a "good" developer. By the end of this two-part book, you will have learned that OOP is not always complex, and you will know how you can evolve into a better programmer by learning about ethics, teamwork, and documentation.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part One – OOP The Easy Way
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Part Two – APPropriate Behavior

Focus versus Interruption

We've heard the clarion call. We've heard how programmers need to get in the zonehttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html in order to get their best work done, and that it's hard to enter the zone. We've heard that a simple phone call or chat from a friend is all it takes to exit the zone, but that getting back in can take 15 minutes. So why doesn't everyone work from home? If having other humans around is so poisonous to productivity, why does any business even bother with the capital expenditure of an office?

Because, while a good person works well on their own, two people working together can be awesome. Let me describe the day I had prior to writing this paragraph. I didn't really get much done in the morning, because a colleague asked me about memory leaks in the code he was working on and I helped him with that. This solved his problem much faster than he would've solved it on his own.

So, I only really...