How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

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How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Presenter(s): Joshua Bloch, Google
Where: Library-Centric Software Design 2005 (description)
When: October 16, 2005
Topics: API
Download: PDF

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Presentation about API design principles and importance of API design for internal and external use.

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  • Public APIs are forever - one chance to get it right
  • Good code is modular–each module has an API
  • Thinking in terms of APIs improves code quality
  • Easy to use, even without documentation
  • Don’t let implementation details “leak” into API
  • Make classes and members as private as possible
Facts about How to Design a Good API and Why it MattersRDF feed
Date October 16, 2005  +
PDF Document URL http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf  +
Presented at Library-Centric Software Design 2005  +
Presenter Joshua Bloch  +
Presenter Company Google  +
Screenshot How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters.jpg  +
Topic API  +
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