Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 12

Overview

Is it time for code now? Well, not quite yet. At this point, you may know where you want your application to end up, but not how to get there. Before you write any code, it’s helpful to think a bit about how that code will be organized. In this chapter, I’ll look at several different ways to organize your project: the architectural perspective, the new project perspective, and the staged delivery perspective:

• The architectural perspective addresses the overall shape of the application.

• The project perspective addresses the construction of the application.

• The staged delivery perspective addresses the release of the application.