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Create more reliable, maintainable software by using test-driven development.
Take existing code and make it better—more readable, efficient, understandable, and updateable—with refactoring.
Discover how a database can benefit both you and your architecture, whatever the programming language, operating system, or application type you use.
Reviews the history of version control and demonstrates its fundamental concepts: check-in/checkout, forking, merging, commits, and distribution.
Introduces object-oriented terms like abstraction and inheritance and shows how to define requirements and use cases and create a conceptual model of your application.
Provides the core knowledge to begin programming in any language, using JavaScript to explore the syntax of a programming language, and shows how to write and execute your first application and understand what's going on under the hood.
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