Quotes
“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”
Kent Beck in: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant 2012 Refactoring: Improving “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 15 “The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn’t change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.”
Extreme Programming Explained, p. 28 “Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.”
Extreme Programming Explained, p. 31 “When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.”
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 88
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Books by Kent Beck in order
Books by Kent Beck in the order they were published, from Burma, Malaya and Singapore, East Asia-Pacific Region, Cambodia (1993) to Tidy First? (2023).
- 1Burma, Malaya and Singapore, East Asia-Pacific Region, CamboBurma, Malaya and Singapore, East Asia-Pacific Region, Cambodia1993
- 2Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns1997 - 3Sorted CollectionSorted Collection1997
- 4Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk
Kent Beck's Guide to Better Smalltalk1998 - 5CRCCRC1999
- 6Extreme Programming Explained
Extreme Programming Explained1999 - 7Planning Extreme Programming
Planning Extreme Programming2000 - 8Test-driven Development
Test-driven Development2002 - 9JUnit
JUnit2004 - 10Implementation Patterns
Implementation Patterns2007 - 11Refactoring
Refactoring2009 - 12Tidy First?
Tidy First?2023