Foundations of Programming

Livro digital

Título:
Foundations of Programming

Autor:
Karl Seguin

Categoria:
Tecnologia > Geral

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Most programming books teach you a framework. This one teaches you how to think about software — starting with the very principles that separate maintainable systems from disposable ones. The opening chapter on ALT.NET sets the tone with a crisp exploration of simplicity, YAGNI, and the last responsible moment, framing every technical decision that follows as a question of long-term maintainability rather than short-term convenience. From domain-driven design and persistence patterns to dependency injection, unit testing, and object-relational mapping, each chapter builds on the last with concrete examples grounded in the .NET ecosystem. The later chapters take an unexpected turn into fundamentals many mid-career developers never revisit — memory allocation, the stack and heap, boxing and fragmentation, deterministic finalization — before closing with exception handling and the proxy pattern. The structure rewards sequential reading but each chapter stands on its own as a focused deep dive. Written by a former Microsoft MVP and CodeBetter.com contributor with years of mentoring experience, this compact 79-page guide distills what actually matters in professional software development. Whether you are transitioning from framework-focused coding to design-conscious engineering or returning to the principles you skipped on the way up, you will close the book with a sharper instinct for what separates code that survives from code that gets rewritten.