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Aug 31 2006

How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

Posted by: Sergey Chernyshev in API, PDF, Slides

Presentation by Joshua Bloch, Google Inc. (Sun previously, author of Effective Java) at Library-Centric Software Design LCSD’05 on Sunday, October 16, 2005 (slides in PDF)

How to Design a Good<br /> API and Why it Matters

Interesting quotes:

  • 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
  • and more …

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