Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.11 EAN: 9780735619494 ISBN: 0735619492 Label: Microsoft Press Manufacturer: Microsoft Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: March 03, 2004 Publisher: Microsoft Press Sales Rank: 265711 Studio: Microsoft Press
Product DescriptionApply what you know about extreme programming and object-oriented design to learning C# and the Microsoft® .NET Framework on the fly. Author Ron Jeffries, a leading voice and practitioner in the extreme programming movement, demonstrates how to apply its key concepts—including the use of customer stories, customer acceptance tests, and 'Spikes'—and the fundamental techniques of Simple Design, Test-Driven Development, and Refactoring to create practical, .NET-ready applications. You’ll also learn how to use NUnit, a unit-testing tool for .NET languages. This essential, high-level reference provides the expert guidance, hands-on insights, and downloadable code you need to build an XML editor, a database application, a Web service, and other useful applications—quickly extending your extreme programming expertise to .NET and helping you deliver business value right away.
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Rating: - Motivating for this developer
I was coming back to Amazon to order a copy of this book to have with me at my new company. I read this book a few years back and I wanted some help explaining the vision of unit testing and agile development to my new team. This book was more an inspiration to me to write better code and be more agile in my methods than it was a learning tool for either the C# language or an XML publishing tool. I am disappointed at some of the negative reviews because those readers obviously bought the book for ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful read, informative, some assembly required...
I noticed that one reviewer below had issues with the code matching the text. I will start with saying this is sometimes true. Some things were not exactly as the text assumed them to be if you were typing in text as you went along. Now, let me say that none of the omissions were that horrific. I actually learned a lot from figuring out how to get the code to compile and get all of the tests to pass even when the in-text code wasn't as it should have been. I learned a bit about internal C# structure ... Read More
Rating: - A very human book to add to your technical library.
Ron Jeffries has been in the industry far longer than many, and his deep and personal insight is very valuable to the modern programmer.
This book is not about source code. It's marginally about a software project. It's about the process of making decisions, developing habits, coping with personal style, knowing one's shortcomings, and listening to intuition. It reveals the mind of a master craftsman plying his trade.
Ron is kind enough to provide a constant stream of knowledge ... Read More
Rating: - what, no editors?
I like Ron's writing style, but the code samples in the book bore only superficial relationship to the text. I expected to be able to sit down with this book and follow along, but I could not because the disconnect between code and text was so great that I couldn't bear to read any further. The book sits, unfinished by me, which is fitting since it was left unfinished by Ron and the publisher.
Rating: - Amazing technique
This is a hard-to-come-by book. I think it's especially useful for someone programmed for less than 10 years or not ever get trained by computer science. The book uses C# which I am very happy with, but it's more like "Extrme Programming Adventures" in any lanaguage.
I learned a lot from the technique delivered by the author, ex. test,test,always write a test before coding (Don't be lazy,it'll bite u back sooner or later if you don't). I can't appreciate this more after three days of practicing ... Read More
- Motivating for this developer
- Wonderful read, informative, some assembly required...
- what, no editors?
