Software Design: Tidy First?

Reading Order

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Kent Beck
Feb 11, 2022
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Let's say you've just read a file (we can have the debate about whether source code belongs in files some other day). You've read the file & you get to the end & there it is!, the detail what would have helped you understand all the rest of the file.

Re-order the code in the file in the order in which a reader (remember, there are many readers for each writer) would prefer to encounter it.

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