DomainDriven Design
Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
by Eric Evans
Recommended by David Heinemeier Hansson and Grady Booch
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Software Architecture, Java, and Programming.
"Eric Evans has written a fantastic book on how you can make the design of your software match your mental model of the problem domain you are addressing. "His book is very compatible with XP. It is not about drawing pictures of a domain; it is about how you think of it, the language you use to talk about it, and how you organize your software to r...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Software Architecture, Java, and Programming.
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Grady Booch
“I absolutely love this book. I was surprised, in my research, to find a very early use of the phrase "domaindriven design" in a paper from 2003 by Bedir Tekinerdogan and Mehmet Aksit from @utwenteEN | This is probably the least readable book of the bunch. It’s a slug to work through, but the ideas are worth it. It’s a great primer on how to turn a problem space into a beautiful OO domain model. What should your models be called What logic goes where How do we reproduce reality into an object model.”
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