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Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development
by Scott L. Bain

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Watch an interview for OnSoftware 'Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development with Scott Bain':
- Part 1 | Part 2
Listen to the podcast of this interview:
- Part 1 | Part 2
Watch Scott's webinar about Emergent Design (1 hour)
Read Richard Sharpe's Blog, and see an Interview with Scott about the book here.
Watch interview segments with Scott Bain, also Dan Rawsthorne, and Jean Tabaka with Richard Sharpe of Enerjy TV
Hear Scott speak about Test-Driven Development (20 minutes)
Read Max Guernsey's Blog about the book
Read James Sugrue's interview with Scott at DZone
Read the Java Ranch review of the book

Related Courses at Net Objectives

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Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development

00 - Introduction
01 - Software as a Profession (sample available here)
02 - Out of the Closet - Patterns and Professionalism in Software Development
03 - The Nature of Software Development (sample available here)
04 - Evolution in Code Stage 1
05 - Introduction to Patterns
06 - Building a Pyramid
07 - Paying Attention to Qualities and Pathologies
08 - Paying Attention to Principles and Wisdom
09 - Paying Attention to Practices
10 - Paying Attention to Disciplines - Unit Testing
11 - Paying Attention to Disciplines - Refactoring
12 - Test-Driven Development
13 - Patterns and Forces
14 - Emergent Design, a Case Study
15 - A Conclusion: 2020
Appendix A - Evolutionary Paths
Appendix B - Overview of Patterns Used in the Examples
Appendix C - The Principle of the Useful Illusion
Appendix D - For Further Reading

Errata:

Page	Issue
64	Figure 4.3 - The "uses" arrow between "LocalStatusSender" and "PagingStatusSender" should not be there
116	Paragraph 8, final sentence says "drifted back to the right" when it should say "drifted back to the left"
208	Second Code Example, third line from the end, MockDAO should be mockDAO
230	The "printReportLines" method and "calculateAverage" method should both take "ArrayList clines" as a parameter
249	Figure 12.7, case B - Third circle should say DecB rather than DecA appearing twice
285	Final paragraph, second sentence, "mange" should be "manage"
286	All references to "Card" or "Cards" should be "Chip" or "Chips"
323	Figure B.12 - the first Handler should be "Handler1" rather than "Handler2" appearing twice
326	Figure B.12 - the Handlers should not have void return type

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