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Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2022

I have been a professional software engineer for 35 years. Mark Seemann has written a book that condenses the same amount of experience into 350 pages. This book is unique in that it takes a heuristic approach to getting good results: it chronicles what worked for Mr. Seemann in his many years of consulting. It is very easy to read. The "restaurant" project he uses as an example comes as a working fully documented git repo with over 500 commits. Over the course of reading the book I found myself thinking: that's what I now practice. But I got here through painful experience. Mark explains not only what works but also why. Do yourself a favor and take the shortcut. Buy the book.

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My Grandson started reading it Christmas Eve. He said he likes it.

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2021

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My Grandson looked threw the book, and said he will be reading this one also.

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RB Whitaker

A book with a lot of great advice that felt just a bit disorganized.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022

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Over the years, I've come to expect great things from books in this series. I don't think this was an exception, but I will say that it was the weakest of the books in this series that I've read (which is nearly all of them). This book fell a bit short of my expectations, but they were likely unrealistically high.

It was definitely worth the purchase, and I'd definitely recommend it to others.

If there's any one thing I'd love to see improved upon in future editions would be that I think it could use a bit of work at the organizational level. The organization, as it currently stands, is basically, "Let's build a project, and I'll introduce you to various good ideas as they are relevant as we're building this." The various principles that came up rang true to me, but going through the book, it just didn't feel like there was a lot of cohesiveness to the ideas that were brought up. I was left wondering if the particular project had been a different one, if we'd have bumped into a totally different set of good ideas to discuss instead.

It was hard to spot the thesis of the book. From the title, I had assumed it was focused on the task of ensuring code is written and structured in a way that makes it easy to figure out and remember for the duration of the time you're working on it. The concept of "code that fits in your head" was one of the many ideas that popped up in the book and was referred back to several times, but it didn't come across as the central tenet of the book, from which every other principle derived from, as I had assumed.

Perhaps you'll appreciate the book a bit more if you go into it knowing that it isn't *specifically* or *only* about writing code that fits into your head, but, rather, a grab bag of good ideas that help you write better code.

It was a good book, worth the money and time I spent on it, just a bit different than I had expected it to be.

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Steve Ragle

I loved that this book whetted my appetite to go deeper on several topics

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2022

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A very nice collection of thoughts and opinions about many of the practical aspects of software development. If you are spinning up a new software group this might be the first thing you want to hand to all your developers. You won't agree with everything the author says, but his explanations are clear and his opinions are definite. I found myself agreeing with the majority of his ideas, nodding along as I read. The book is well-written and very readable, and the author has taken a great amount of effort and care to illustrate his points with the associated codebase and references. If nothing else, the book would be an excellent kickoff for discussion.

The bibliography at the back of the book is a great source of info to follow your curiosity where it leads you, and the author's consistent use of references within the book makes finding things there easy. I found myself heading off to read blog articles, watch videos, and I put several interesting books on my 'must read' list.

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AdaptableTerran

Great Advice

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2022

This book contains a collection of thoughtful and pragmatic techniques for writing better software. Mark Seemann is a very deep thinker -- his blog contains an overwhelming amount of information and opinions on software development. This book, thankfully, keeps things very practical with clear explanations and easy-to-implement techniques. Mr. Seemann validates the techniques presented in his book by referencing other expert developers who’ve reached the same conclusions. I loved the "fractal architecture" metaphor -- it was one of many useful things I learned from this outstanding book.

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Florian Schaupp

Gute Ansätze um den Kollegen die eigenen Spinnereien besser zu verklickern

Reviewed in Germany on June 16, 2022

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Wie war das? >>Jeder Trottel kann Code schreiben, den Maschienen verstehen - die Challange ist es Code zu schreiben, den jeder versteht<< (nicht direkt aus dem Buch).

Hat auf jeden Fall gute Ansätze, um die eigenen Gedanken so zu ordnen, damit andere (oder man selbst Monate später) besser und sicherer damit umgehen können.

Natürlich darf TDD etc. nicht fehlen - wenn auch berechtigter weise.

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Sehr gut

Reviewed in Germany on January 23, 2022

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Man sollte wissen, dass das Buch nicht von unkle Bob geschrieben wurde. Dies ändert aber nichts daran, dass es ein ausgezeichnetes Buch ist. Ich kann es jedem empfehlen der sich für Code interessiert.

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Amiradel Beygzadeh

The Book Than Fited in My Head

Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2021

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This was the book I had been anticipating. Comprehensible, accurate, and useful

paul

Okayish, aber einfach nicht gut

Reviewed in Germany on May 24, 2022

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Das Buch ist inhaltlich OK. Meiner Meinung nach richtet es sich nicht an "erfahrene" Entwickler, die schon ein bis zwei Bücher im Themenkomplex gelesen haben, sondern eher an den ambitionierten Nachwuchs-Entwickler, der ein Problem nicht nur möglichst schnell mit Code erschlagen will. Müssen die Beispiele nicht in C# sein, sind "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" und "A Philosophy of Software Design" bessere Lektüren.

Bei einigen Tipps und Heuristiken musste ich stark den Kopf schütteln. Sie wirken für mich aus der Zeit gefallen. Ein konkretes Beispiel wäre die unterschiedliche Behandlung bezüglich Abstraktionen von Test und Produktivcode. Bitte befolgt das nicht blind.

Ich habe die Kindle Version gelesen, die zusätzlich diverse Zeichensatzfehler hat. 2011 habe ich das sehr gute Dependency Injection in .NET von Mark Seemann gelesen und angenommen, dass hier die Essenz von 10 weiteren Jahren in der Softwareentwicklung zu finden ist.

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