I just heard a good Statement about Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming. I‘m not against FP but I decided to use the OOP approach. Trying to be best at it.
OOP and FP are tools.
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It doesn’t matter what programming paradigm you use. The problems presented in most of the articles are about organizing your code.
To me the macrostructure of the application matters a lot more: what are the modules? How do they communicate with each other? What are the common data structures? How are these documented? What are the important business objects?
These are all questions that have nothing to do with the programming paradigm in use, and the programming paradigm doesn’t even solve. A good programmer will learn the paradigm as a matter of knowing one’s tool and will use whichever is appropriate for the given task.
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So I totally agree with that statement, and if it is hard to understand the paradigms behind the code I write. I‘ll create several Blogposts with Examples and the Pro/Cons behind it.
In general, as you will see, I don‘t Invent something new, at least I try to use the best approach for the Product. And the best thing for a product is, that is easy to maintained and to be evolved.
As a Software Architect, I have my main focused shift to the general concepts and pattern used. Always focused on Stability and Maintainability.
There are many patterns and concepts out there to support a better Maintainability, but many of them are not used by developers and I always have to explain them again and again. So, the following text will shortly explain which I use in my code.
Naming classes and methods
As started years ago with Clean code, we should name our Methods as descriptive as possible right? But, this also has its downsides, so I’ve started the Builders and Manipulators approach. Since the reasoning behind that naming schema is strongly tight of my understanding of how classes should behave. Mainly because, when using an object, I’m not interested in how it services my request. I’m just interested in what I receive, which is much more declarative instead of imperative.
Declarative programming is a programming paradigm … that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow.
Imperative programming is a programming paradigm that uses statements that change a program’s state.
https://codeburst.io/declarative-vs-imperative-programming-a8a7c93d9ad2
So, how I determine the names of classes, methods, and functions?
- A class instance is a representation of the parameters given to the constructor. This representation has a behavior described by its interfaces and its name.
- Functions results are a representation of its parameters a the result and its name.
- Methods describe its changes with its name and parameters.
class Point
{
// Represents a Point in a defined color.
public Point(color)
: this(color, x, y)
...
// Represents a Point in a defined color.
public Point(color, x, y)
...
public String String() => _color;
// Represents a Line with the given end point.
// Since this is scoped to the current Class its clear,
// that this line ist from its starting point.
public Line Line(Point endpoint)
...
// Change its x,y coordinated to the given destination.
// -> In general, I do not recommend to use Modifiers,
// since they are creating mutable objects. But for
// demonstrating this is fine.
public Move(Point destination)
}
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