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This is the content of the book.

Contents 1 Prologue 2 Part 1 3 Part 2 4 Part 3 5 Epilogue

Prologue

• Yet Another Design Book?

Part 1

• Theory and Justification
• The Art of Building Modern Software
• The Motivation to Create an API
• Determining What Makes a Good API
• How to Check the Quality of an API
• Ever Changing Targets

Part 2

• Do Not Expose More Than You Want
• Code Against Interfaces, Not Implementations
• Use Modular Architecture
• Separate APIs for Client APIs and Support APIs
• Keep Testability In Mind
• Cooperating with Other APIs
• Runtime Aspects of APIs
• Declarative Programming

Part 3

• Extreme Advice Considered Harmful
• Paradoxes of API Design
• Evolving the API Universe
• Teamwork
• Using Games to Improve API Design Skills
• Case Study of Writing the Extensible Visitor Pattern
• End Of Life Procedures

Epilogue

• The Future