Any fool can
write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code
that humans can understand.”
-Martin Fowler et al, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999
-Martin Fowler et al, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999
This quote from MartinFowler captures very well the main theme
of Dar es Salam GTUG latest event
dubbed “beautiful code design
best practices”. We to were trying to dive deep into what does it take to write code that not only a machine understand and execute but
more so fellow humans so as to ensure the sustainability of the
code in terms of scalability and maintainability of it.
But before we dived in the best practices, Tony Severine,
warmed up audiences with how to use G oogle
map maker to do mapping.For most upcoming meetings we
will take few minutes to promote
the idea of mapping in our effort
to try to put Tanzania on the world map.
Next up was MbwanaMbura who kicked things off with his presentation titled,”Beautiful code”, talking about best practices for
writing beautiful working code such
as , how to break long methods, proper
naming of methods and proper documentation of your code.
And then finally he talked about the question of programming languages, and how different
problems can be tackled in ways more
than one if you are knowledgeable in more than just one programming language.
The last presentation
came from Alex Makumuli, in a form of
a Google hangout from Finland, titled “Better Software”.
Alex ‘s presentation emphasis was on using test driven
approach to developing software. It was accompanied by live demo
sessions in writing test before you start to write actual code for your application and how to do
refactoring of the existing code.
Many thanks to
our wonderful presenters
and to all of t hose who showed up for
this event .
Various resources from this meeting can be found through the following
links.
Photos, http://bit.ly/H3fQT5 , (
more photos will be posted soon)
Presentations, http://dar.gtugs.org/previous-events-resources-2
