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Episode 465: Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee on 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Chapter Six - Breaking Up Problems Into Trunks

chapter six is about breaking up problems into trunks. I think there's sometimes confusion between breaking down something into small pieces of business value, which can be difficult to do and smaller tasks that can be implemented without major changes. Just because it doesn't change the functionality in the application as a whole, doesn't mean it's not a small, committable piece of work. So you can still commit the piece of code which reads from a file, even if you don't do anything with that file etyou can still commit. M im a bigfe big popic fan of co committing, like skeleton code, like sketching out code. Is definitely is a skill. It's

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