Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

Name: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
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ISBN: 9780134769042

ISBN-10: 013476904X

ISBN-13: 9780134769042

Edition: 1st 1997

Authors: Kent Beck

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This book presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers have learned the hard way. Understand these patterns, and you can write much more effective code. Understand the concept of Smalltalk patterns and why they work. Then learn patterns for working with methods, messages, state, collections, classes and formatting. Walk through a development example utilizing patterns.Smalltalk programmers, project managers, teachers and students -- both new and experienced.

Book details

List price: $66.65
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/3/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.90" wide x 9.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English




Introduction


Coding


Talking Programs


Good Software


Style


What's Missing? Book Organization


Adoption


Learning a Pattern



Patterns


Why Patterns Work


Role of Patterns


Reading


Development


Review


Documentation


Clean Up


Format



Behavior


Methods


Composed Method


Constructor Method


Constructor Parameter Method


Shortcut Constructor Method


Conversion


Converter Method


Converter Constructor Method


Query Method


Comparing Method


Reversing Method


Method Object


Execute Around Method


Debug Printing Method


Method Comment


Messages


Message


Choosing Message


Decomposing Message


Intention Revealing Message


Intention Revealing Selector


Dispatched Interpretation


Double Dispatch


Mediating Protocol


Super


Extending Super


Modifying Super


Delegation


Simple Delegation


Self Delegation


Pluggable Behavior


Pluggable Selector


Pluggable Block


Collecting Parameter



State


Instance Variables


Common State


Variable State


Explicit Initialization


Lazy Initialization


Default Value Method


Constant Method


Direct Variable Access


Indirect Variable Access


Getting Method


Setting Method


Collection Accessor Method


Enumeration Method


Boolean Property Setting Method


Role Suggesting Instance Variable Name


Temporary Variables


Temporary Variable


Collecting Temporary Variable


Caching Temporary Variable


Explaining Temporary Variable


Reusing Temporary Variable


Role Suggesting Temporary Variable Name



Collections


Classes


Collection


OrderedCollection


RunArray


Set


Equality Method


Hashing Method


Dictionary


SortedCollection


Array


ByteArray


Interval


Collection Protocol


IsEmpty


Includes:. Concatentation


Enumeration


Do. Collect


Select/Reject


Detect


Inject:into


Collection Idioms


Duplicate Removing Set


Temporarily Sorted Collection


Stack


Queue


Searching Literal


Lookup Cache


Parsing Stream


Concatenating Stream



Classes


Simple Superclass Name


Qualified Subclass Name



Formatting


Inline Message Pattern


Type Suggesting Parameter Name


Indented Control Flow


Rectangular Block


Guard Clause


Conditional Expression


Simple Enumeration Parameter


Cascade


Yourself


Interesting Return Value



Development Example


Problem


Start


Arithmetic


Integration


Summary



Quick Reference


Index