Outline
From APIDesign
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Contents |
Prologue
Part 1: Theory and Justification
- Chapter 1: The Art of Building Modern Software
- Chapter 2: The Motivation to Create an API
- Chapter 3: Determining What Makes a Good API
- Chapter 4: Ever Changing Targets
Part 2: Practical Design
- Chapter 5: Do Not Expose More Than You Want
- Chapter 6: Code Against Interfaces, Not Implementations
- Chapter 7: Use Modular Architecture
- Chapter 8: Separate APIs for Client APIs and Support APIs
- Chapter 9: Keep Testability In Mind
- Chapter 10: Cooperating with Other APIs
- Chapter 11: Runtime Aspects of APIs
- Chapter 12: Declarative Programming
Part 3: Daily Life
- 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
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