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Foundations of Programming - Building Better Software
79 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2008
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February 28, 2019
Foundations of Programming is a free ebook written by Karl Seguin, a member of the CodeBettter community. As you might have guessed by now from the fact the book is free, he is Canadian. :)
There is even a Foundation of Programming site, where there are a lot of free resources on programming as well as other free ebooks.
About the book, it is a good read. A bit inconsistent, it seemed, since it starts with chapters on Domain Driven Design, Persistence, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, then moves to Object Relational Mappers and then has three "Back to Basics" chapters about Memory, Exceptions and Proxies. There is a logic to this, but the jump from expert to junior programming and then back again was a little annoying.
Interestingly enough, Karl Seguin is a former Microsoft MVP that advocates ALT.Net.
Bottom line, it is a good and easy read for all levels of programming. People might be attracted to the way Karl is expressing his opinion without actually being biased towards any of the usual debate parties. Beginners might learn about the foundations of the stuff they take for granted, like heap/stack, while more advanced developers can start thinking about structured ways of doing work, like DDD and automated unit testing. Neither chapter is a complete new revelation, but taken together, they do present a clear picture of programming from Karl Seguin's perspective and can surprise you on matters you thought you had complete control over.
There is even a Foundation of Programming site, where there are a lot of free resources on programming as well as other free ebooks.
About the book, it is a good read. A bit inconsistent, it seemed, since it starts with chapters on Domain Driven Design, Persistence, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, then moves to Object Relational Mappers and then has three "Back to Basics" chapters about Memory, Exceptions and Proxies. There is a logic to this, but the jump from expert to junior programming and then back again was a little annoying.
Interestingly enough, Karl Seguin is a former Microsoft MVP that advocates ALT.Net.
Bottom line, it is a good and easy read for all levels of programming. People might be attracted to the way Karl is expressing his opinion without actually being biased towards any of the usual debate parties. Beginners might learn about the foundations of the stuff they take for granted, like heap/stack, while more advanced developers can start thinking about structured ways of doing work, like DDD and automated unit testing. Neither chapter is a complete new revelation, but taken together, they do present a clear picture of programming from Karl Seguin's perspective and can surprise you on matters you thought you had complete control over.
August 10, 2023
The book gives you a nice introduction to different programming concepts.
The 'Back to Basics: Memory' chapter is one of the best explanations of the subject I've read in a long time. Because of this, I gave the book 4 stars.
The 'Back to Basics: Memory' chapter is one of the best explanations of the subject I've read in a long time. Because of this, I gave the book 4 stars.
June 11, 2011
I enojied reading this book, it has many of interesting subject plus it not that long it'll give you a great information about a lot of points inside programming/developing world, for myself I've learned a lot of things specially it encourage me to give NHibernate a try and I'm enjoying myself by further read about it plus the unit-testing.
It's a free book and I suggest it to every programmer/developer put there. It must be in your book shelf.
It's a free book and I suggest it to every programmer/developer put there. It must be in your book shelf.
October 28, 2011
Read in one day. If I had to learn again how to program, this could be one of my first reads... pitty NH is not updated to 3.0 in the book yet!
March 22, 2014
Mas allá de las tecnologías que se usen para los ejemplos da una visión buena y resumida (es un conjunto de posts) de "el estado del arte" del desarrollo. Bueno para empezar o como recordatorio
October 21, 2012
Impressive summary of many cogent and critical points about software engineering and the .net examples still made sense even from my Java perspective.
Anyone writing code should read this.
Anyone writing code should read this.
November 26, 2012
Broad yet concrete, examples maybe a little dated but very good for starters nonetheless (only 79 pages!)
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