Tidy First?
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/08
Reminder to myself to check out of the Tidy First? book by Kent Beck got out yet.
I discovered he was writing it after reading this tweet:
Like Extreme Programming, which I used before I even know about the term, Tidy First is my natural way of approaching code: step by step tidying small spots, so I get a feel on the why and how of the code. For me, tidying consists of very small refactorings. I am anxious to see what it means for Kent.
Related links:
- “tidy first?” “kent beck” – Google Search
- #TidyFirst hashtag on Twitter
- #CleanUpFirst hashtag on Twitter
- [WayBack] What To Tidy – Kent Beck – Medium
- [WayBack] Kent Beck on Twitter: “Glad I talked about not liking “clean/dirty” as a metaphor for code. Some folks said the opposite wasn’t dirty, it was messy. Messy led me to its opposite “tidy”, which has better connotations. #TidyFirst, the hashtag (and book) formerly known as #CleanUpFirst”
- [WayBack] test && commit || revert – Kent Beck – Medium
- [WayBack] Limbo on the Cheap – Kent Beck – Medium
The Limbo song asks, “How low can you go?” Limbo is a strategy for scaling collaboration on software projects by reducing the size of changes to be merged and increasing the velocity and reach of propagation of changes.
- [WayBack] Writing a Book – Kent Beck – Medium
As I got started with Tidy First?, my long-contemplated book on software design, I found myself in a sequence of oh-so-familiar situations. I realized that book writing has a rhythm for me. To help you quell the desire to write a book of your own, here are the steps.
–jeroen
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