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How do you improve your ability to design your applications? Where do you get your design ideas from? (I am asking about code design - not about a specific language and not about visual appeal). When I started programming, I found Design Patterns to be very helpful. These days I mainly poke around open source projects to see what other people did whenever I need to solve similar problems. What do you do? |
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read Head-First Design Patterns. it tells you how to get to a pattern but providing the design principle that gets you there. will help you a lot to design, so read it for the principles, even though its title is Design Patterns another thing are the SOLID principles. see link on wikipedia and also go for the links in the article and for the links at the reference area back page. the one from Uncle Bob is good also, Uncle Bob has written about SOLID in his book Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. there are only a few chapters about those in the book, still, you might be interested. if you want the shorter version, got for the link mentioned on wikipedia page here is a video, on vimeo, about getting better at oop |
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I read books/blogs/articles about specific architecture models and then try them out. I build a small app (usually something I've made before) to see if it is any easier or better than what I've done in the past. If it will potentially help any professional projects I'm on then I'll pitch the idea to my peers to see if they agree. |
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Read questions and answers on stackoverflow. and very import: the comments |
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