Emergent Design: Training and Resources
by Scott L. Bain
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Table of Contents
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 |
| 84 | The last line, "design to over-design", should be desire to over-design |
| 111 | In the box, the word safety appears twice in the wrong font |
| 112 | 2nd to last line, "were so were" should be "were so" |
| 116 | Paragraph 8, final sentence says "drifted back to the right" when it should say "drifted back to the left" |
| 148 | 3rd line from the bottom, missing closing parenthesis after i++ |
| 159 | 7th line, delete the prase "a function that is often problematic" |
| 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 |
| 235 | I write "At the end of this chapter, I will suggest some books I have found to get started. ". That list is in an appendix at the end of the book, not the chapter |
| 243 | Figure 12.5, bottom right, box says "Strategy_V1Test" should be "Strategy_V2Test". Same on the previous page in Figure 12.4 |
| 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 |