Writing code for other people: cognitive psychology and the fundamentals of good software design principles

Authors:
Thomas Mullen
Affiliations:
Self, London, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper demonstrates how the cognitive model of the mind can explain the core fundamentals behind widely accepted design principles. The conclusion is that software design is largely a task of chunking analogies and presents a theory that is detailed enough to be accessible to even the most inexperienced programmer. The corollary of which is a pedagogical approach to understanding design principles rather than the necessity of years of software development experience.