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What's "Tidy First"? Is this a book I should have heard of?
by catskul2 4y ago
What's "Tidy First"? Is this a book I should have heard of?
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoThe author of this piece is Kent Beck, who has written on software before. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25211.Kent_Beck https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25211.Kent_Beck He is one of the "Agile Manifesto" people: his name is on this page https://agilemanifesto.org/ https://agilemanifesto.org/ His books are rightly well-known. He appears to be discussing his upcoming new book. It doesn't seem to be out yet.
- scrame 4y agoooooh. yeah he wrote the book on Test Driven Development. I had the same question initially, I thought tidy first was one of those home keeping books.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoa lot of lessons learned from working on software apply to the rest of life!
- nextos 4y agoI think this link to an event his publisher is organizing discusses some relevant context to understand the post: https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/software-architecture-hour-software-design-tidy-first-with-kent-beck/0636920090256/0636920090255/ https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/software-architecture-ho...