Software Design: Tidy First?

Tidying Example Bounty

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Kent Beck
Feb 02, 2022
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One of the hardest parts of writing a book like TF? is coming up with all the examples. I’d like to do them all myself, of course, but then it struck me—why don’t I turn them into a game for y’all? So, here’s the deal:

You go find a spot in an open source projects where a tidying applies. You submit a tiny tidying PR. It gets accepted. You send me the UR…

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