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A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout – review
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout is a great book. Period. I would say that it is a great additional to reading Clean Code. Clean code in my opinion is dry and very… strict ? Not much room to fiddle around with rules set by Uncle Bob the Guardian of the Clean Code. John Ousterhout provides us with a more kind and flexible approach without strict, dry rules to follow. Since the book was wrote by a professor at Stanford that had classes it might get a bit technical when John goes through the different code sets but it does print a better picture of the whole problem.…
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Literate programming by Donald Knuth
Literate programming is a programming style introduced by Donald Knuth in 1984. The focus is on explaining the logic and reasoning behind a computer program (comments) to human readers, rather than just providing instructions for the computer ( plain source code ). The key ideas are: Definition Literate programming is a programming paradigm where a computer program is explained in natural language interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code. Purpose Used for reproducible research and open access in scientific computing and data science. Approach Literate programming by Donald Knuth Gives programmers templates to develop programs in the order demanded by the logic and flow of their thoughts. Moving…
