Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Kent Beck
5 people recommended it in 4 threads, 2010–2017.
1 commenter pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
If you work in an object oriented language, I think one of the most useful books you could read would be Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practise Patterns. The reason being that the lessons and tricks Kent discusses in his book can be applied to Ruby, Python, Java, C#, C++, Delphi, and any other language that I insultingly forgot, where you are working with objects and polymorphism.
Lots of OO classes use it and Smalltalk is a great language to learn OO with (but even if you don't use it, the general information will be a big help).
I've never used Smalltalk but it transfers to any dynamic OOP language.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code? 2017 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 2015 · 1 recommendation
- What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? 2011 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are some good books for understanding OOP? 2010 · 1 recommendation