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Presentation from November 2018 Meeting

Attached is a copy of the slides.

 

Here is the video from when I presented the same material at GDevCon

https://youtu.be/SDvFdXhxXZ0

I think you will find the conversation it generated quite enlightening.

 

I passed out some surveys afterward.  One of the questions was: "Did this inspire to make any changes to the way you write software?" and someone wrote "No, because I don't write spaghetti code." 

 

While I am very happy for that person, I think they may have missed the point of the presentation (or maybe it was meant tongue in cheek). So I will mention it here: 

 

Refactoring is not just a technique for fixing someone else's (hopefully not our own) spaghetti mess.  It can be quite useful during normal development.  You may write really great code, but then requirements change.  In which case you may end up refactoring perfectly well-written code.  It is definitely a tool everyone should have in their toolbox even if you don't write spaghetti code (which hopefully applies to all of us).

Sam Taggart
CLA, CPI, CTD, LabVIEW Champion
DQMH Trusted Advisor
Read about my thoughts on Software Development at sasworkshops.com/blog
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