Ronald Mak – författare

Your Python projects work, yet scaling and maintenance still feel risky. Bug fixes spiral and new features break code you wrote last week. Professional design principles stop churn and keep teams moving with confidence. This book shows proven patterns, clearly explained in plain, modern Python. See messy “before” code refactored into clean, extendable, production-ready modules. Write software that your future self, and your colleagues, will actually love. 

Iterative requirement analysis: Translate vague needs into precise, testable class responsibilities.  Cohesion and coupling metrics: Keep modules focused while collaborating through stable, predictable interfaces.  Decorator pattern usage: Enhance behavior without subclass explosions or tangled conditional logic.  SOLID principles walkthrough: Spot smells early and refactor confidently before technical debt snowballs.  Pythonic pattern catalog: Apply strategy, observer, factory, and more using idiomatic language constructs.  Conversation sidebars: Get quick answers to common design questions right when you need them. 

Software Design for Python Programmers guides you with real-world, field-tested advice. Each chapter starts with flawed “before” code, then iteratively improves it using proven principles. Diagrams, talking-head sidebars, and refactoring checkpoints make every concept stick. 

Finish able to craft maintainable architectures, write extensible classes, and communicate design choices with authority. Your codebase becomes an asset, not a liability. 

Ideal for Python developers comfortable with syntax who crave professional-grade software design skills. 

Long-awaited revision to a unique guide that covers both compilers and interpreters Revised, updated, and now focusing on Java instead of C++, this long-awaited, latest edition of this popular book teaches programmers and software engineering students how to write compilers and interpreters using Java. You?ll write compilers and interpreters as case studies, generating general assembly code for a Java Virtual Machine that takes advantage of the Java Collections Framework to shorten and simplify the code. In addition, coverage includes Java Collections Framework, UML modeling, object-oriented programming with design patterns, working with XML intermediate code, and more.

The quick and crystal-clear guide to C++ programming C++ Essentials For Dummies is your useful reference to the key concepts of C++, the popular general-purpose language utilized everywhere from building games to writing parts of operating systems. With minimal review and background material—and absolutely no fluff—this book gets straight to the essential topics you need to know to ramp up, brush up, or level up. Get a helpful intro to the basic concepts of coding in C++Review what you already know or pick up essential new skillsCreate projects that run smoothly with the C++ languageKeep this concise reference book handy for jogging your memory as you workGreat for supplementing classroom learning, reviewing for a certification, or staying knowledgeable on the job, C++ Essentials For Dummies is a fantastic refresher guide that you can always turn to for answers.