Five Lines of Code • Christian Clausen & Kevlin Henney

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code" & CEO & Founder of Mistware Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer
RESOURCES
mist-cloud.eu
hbr.org/2016/01/trick-yourself-into-breaking-a-bad-habit
Christian
@thedrlambda
github.com/thedrlambda
linkedin.com/in/thedrlambda
thedrlambda.medium.com

Kevlin
about.me/kevlin
@KevlinHenney
linkedin.com/in/kevlin
instagram.com/kevlin.henney
kevlinhenney.medium.com

DESCRIPTION
Five Lines of Code is a fresh look at refactoring for developers of all skill levels. In it, you’ll master author Christian Clausen’s innovative approach, learning concrete rules to get any method down to five lines—or less! You’ll learn when to refactor, specific refactoring patterns that apply to most common problems, and characteristics of code that should be deleted altogether.
You will learn:
• The signs of bad code
• Improving code safely, even when you don’t understand it
• Balancing optimization and code generality
• Proper compiler practices
• The Extract method, Introducing Strategy pattern, and many other refactoring patterns
• Writing stable code that enables change-by-addition
• Writing code that needs no comments
• Real-world practices for great refactoring
* Book description: © Manning
The interview is based on the book "Five Lines of Code"
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Martin Fowler • Refactoring 2nd Ed.
Fowler, Beck, Brant, Opdyke, Roberts & Gamma • Refactoring 1st Ed.
Edsger W. Dijkstra • A Discipline of Programming
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides & Booch • Design Patterns

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. From teenage programmer to agile guru (00:02:04)

3. Unleashing the power of small (00:05:01)

4. The power of effective programming (00:08:38)

5. The pitfalls of automation (00:10:56)

6. Strategic copying: Maximizing codebase agility (00:13:53)

7. The art of doing one thing at a time (00:17:43)

8. Is automating refactoring a mistake? (00:23:05)

9. Communication is hard, do it more often (00:33:26)

10. Overcoming barriers in software development (00:35:55)

11. TypeScript, getters & setters, code quality & code visibility (00:39:56)

12. Building better code with invariants (00:49:32)

13. Into the danger (00:57:20)

14. Fear-proof your code & overcome challenges to deliver great software (01:02:36)

15. Outro (01:08:15)