The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox: Practical Skills for Software Professionals Working with Legacy Code
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2019
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- Title
- The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox: Practical Skills for Software Professionals Working with Legacy Code
- Author
- Boccara, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1691064130
- ISBN 13
- 9781691064137
- Item weight
- 0.78 pounds
"This is a warm and reassuring book that will equip you to read, understand, and update legacy code in any language."
--Kate Gregory
"It is easy to forget that outside the world of software development, the word legacy has another meaning. A positive meaning, a gift of wealth from the past to the present for the future. This book will help you reclaim the word."
--Kevlin Henney
If you're like most software developers, you have to deal with legacy code. But working with legacy code is challenging! This book will teach you how to be happy, efficient and successful when working with legacy code.
Here are the skills that The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox will teach you:
- how to deal with legacy code efficiently and with a positive approach,
- 10 techniques how to understand legacy code,
- 5 ways to reduce the size of long functions,
- a technique to turn legacy code to your advantage to improve your programming skills,
- how to be in a motivated mindset,
- the power of knowledge of your codebase, how to acquire it and make every person in your team acquire it too,
- how to find the source of a bug quickly in a large and unfamiliar codebase,
- where to focus your refactoring efforts so that they make your life easier,
- and many more things to be efficient and happy when working with legacy code!
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