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GRASP Principles for the Object-oriented Mind

Author

Kiko Fernandez-Reyes

About the author

Kiko is a PhD student in programming languages and the main lecturer of Advanced Software Design course at Uppsala University. He is also a core developer of the Encore programming language, has written research publications about concurrent and parallel data structures and has won two best paper awards in his short (yet) academic career.

Before doing research, he used to work as a consultant, writing software in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby and Clojure among others. He is a long-term learner and always try to improve how software design is taught at the university level.

kikofernandez.github.io/

Book ICO Progress

Book ICO was stopped by author before funding goal was reached

ICO structure

Book Token	A BOOK token is an indivisible token that represents access to a unique piece of digital content. A token is therefore a unique access key. Each book that is published or crowdfunded on Publica is assigned its own, unique BOOK token.
Symbol	BOOK_KGPFTOM
Total Supply	1000 Tokens
Initial Rate	$3.99 per one BOOK_KGPFTOM Token
Rate After ICO	$6.99 per one BOOK_KGPFTOM Token
if only softcap is reached	The book will include more examples and exercises, analysis of two real-world projects and I will hire a professional editor who is going to help me improve the prose and structure of the book.

About Book

Genre: Textbook

Language: English

Planned publishing date: 01.01.2019

This book will teach you software design principles that can be applied to any object-oriented language, with examples in Java and Python. You will learn the design principles and how to use correctly the type system of the language of your choice. For this reason, we show the different aspects to consider when programming in a static and dynamic language. Examples use Java and Python and show the benefits and drawbacks of these languages.

Preface

The purpose of this book is to show how to write flexible and maintainable code from a unique perspective: the type system of a language. For this reason, this book is not a definitive guide to any language but a starting point to writing better software, taking advantage of the type system of the language. Using the type system (or lack thereof), you will experience the advantages and disadvantages it brings to a language and performs an inform decision before you start hacking on your next project. The examples are written in Java 8 and Python 3.4.

This book is directed to young software engineers, developers and self-taught programmers who are familiar with object-oriented programming but seek on improving the code they write.

The first part of the book starts with a reminder of UML notation and basic concepts of object-oriented programming. The second part explains each GRASP principle with examples from a case study and compares and contrast the benefits and the approaches of each language. The third part analyses real-world, open source projects and localises the points where GRASP principles have been used. In the last part, you can read the solution to the exercises proposed throughout the book.

Part I:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Type Systems
Chapter 3: Object-oriented Reminder
Chapter 4: UML

Part II:

Chapter 5: Case Study
Chapter 6: GRASP principles

Part III: (only if I get enough funding)

Chapter 7: Spark Java
Chapter 8: PySpark

Part IV:

Solution to exercises

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