by Ruben Hamers | Jul 25, 2022 | A Philosophy of Software Design, Reviews, Unity3D
#begin Today we will discuss a really important topic in software design and development: Consistency. Yeah let’s go! Consistency So chapter 17 is called Consistency. Prof Ousterhout says it’s a powerful tool for reducing the complexity of a system and...
by Ruben Hamers | Jul 20, 2022 | A Philosophy of Software Design, Reviews, Unity3D
#begin Next-up is a chapter about modifying existing code. And from what I can remember, this is very focused on, well… comments, again. John puts in a real effort to make it abundantly clear that comments are really important for good software design. I...
by Ruben Hamers | Jul 6, 2022 | A Philosophy of Software Design, Reviews, Unity3D
#begin In todays blog we will take a look at chapter 15 of A Philosophy of Software Design. This chapter is going to be about a practice where you write your comments/summaries before you write any code. Sounds weird right? Write the comments first When I read...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 26, 2022 | A Philosophy of Software Design, Reviews, Unity3D
#begin Today we will take a look at a chapter where I think Prof. Ousterhout and Uncle Bob are somewhat on the same line again. Both of them want you to choose good names for concepts in your code. Uncle Bob has lot’s of practical advise and Prof. Ousterhout...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 21, 2022 | A Philosophy of Software Design, Reviews, Unity3D
#begin We will continue our discussion about comments with another chapter about comments. This time Prof. Ousterhout will give some advise on how to properly write them. Let’s see. And, well prepare for a rant. Comments should describe things that aren’t...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 13, 2022 | A Philosophy of Software Design, Reviews, Unity3D
#begin Hey, welcome back! Today we will dive into a really interesting topic of the book A Philosphy of Software Design. It’s about comments and why we should write them. This highly contractics the practices presented in Uncle Bob’s Clean Code which is...
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