New Think Tank » Object Oriented Programming

In this part of my code refactoring tutorial I will cover how to turn an implied tree structure into a composite pattern. What do you do when you want to model a tree structure? You can either list the...

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Code Refactoring 8

January 23, 2013, 6:52 pm

I show you how to eliminate duplicate code using the template method pattern

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Code Refactoring 7

January 19, 2013, 3:17 pm

We'll work with the strategy design pattern in java. We'll explore how the strategy pattern can be used to eliminate conditionals during code refactoring

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Code Refactoring 6

January 18, 2013, 4:35 pm

We'll clean up conditional statements by extracting them into methods, talk about naming, guard clauses and polymorphism

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Code Refactoring 5

January 16, 2013, 6:29 pm

In this code refactoring tutorial, I will show you how to replace a constructor with a factory method in 2 code examples. I also solve a challenge question

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Code Refactoring 4

January 13, 2013, 5:17 pm

We'll cover converting simple types into class objects. We'll also look at how to move fields and methods into other classes and a bunch of tricks

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Code Refactoring 3

January 11, 2013, 4:12 pm

I show you examples of how you can make your code more understandable using something called an Explaining Variable

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Code Refactoring 2

January 10, 2013, 6:47 pm

I talk about some basic code refactoring concepts like method extraction and how to handle temporary and local variables

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Code Refactoring

January 6, 2013, 6:52 pm

Code refactoring is used to improve code design to make it easier to understand and extend. I cover the code refactoring bad smells and provide examples

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