Seriously Good Software: Code that works, survives, and wins

by Marco Faella

Serious developers know that code can always be improved. With each iteration, you make optimizations—small and large—that can have a huge impact on your application’s speed, size, resilience, and maintainability. In Seriously Good Software: Code that Works, Survives, and Wins, author, teacher, and Java expert Marco Faella teaches you techniques for writing better code. You’ll start with a simple application and follow it through seven careful refactorings, each designed to explore another dimension of quality.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Software, Nonfiction, Computers

325 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

CS professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

Reviews

[Lucy Batson · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF: One of the worst Manning books I've read, or at least the worst named. This is mostly a collection of very high-level tips, told in a really disjointed manner.

[Johnny · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not at all what I expected from the book description and Manning as the publisher. This book is a great fit for a lecture on computer science, but very thin on the practical use. While you get lots of formulas to calculate everything the author explains, you only get a tiny side note where you find the tool to measure your application. The advice you get from the book are theoretically sound, yet rather pointless. It reminded me a lot of the referenced book Code Complete, in which Steve McConnell explains a whole chapter how certain ways to write loops is much faster than others only to conclude at the end that this does not matter when you not run that code many hundred million times.

[Dmitriy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's actually not a bad book for a new developer. But a professional with some experience already knows the content of the book from other sources, so the title is too loud.

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's some useful information here but I'd rather spend my time rereading effective java

[Jascha · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am not exactly sure I understand what the book is about...