Crash Course programmeren in Python is een snelle maar diepgaande introductie in programmeren met Python. Leer in korte tijd programma’s schrijven, problemen oplossen en laat programma’s ook werken.

In de eerste helft van het boek komen basis programmeerconcepten aan de orde, zoals het maken van lijsten, woordenboeken, classes en lussen, en wordt het schrijven van duidelijke en leesbare code aangeleerd met oefeningen over ieder onderwerp. Daarnaast leer je hoe je programma’s interactief...

In The Software Craftsman, Sandro Mancuso explains what craftsmanship means to the developer and his or her organization, and shows how to live it every day in your real-world development environment. Mancuso shows how software craftsmanship fits with and helps students improve upon best-practice technical disciplines such as agile and lean, taking all development projects to the next level. Readers will learn how to change the disastrous perception that software developers are the same as fa...

Refactoring is about improving the design of existing code. It is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code, yet improves its internal structure. With refactoring you can even take a bad design and rework it into a good one. This book offers a thorough discussion of the principles of refactoring, including where to spot opportunities for refactoring, and how to set up the required tests. There is also a catalog of more tha...