Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About the Author

About the cover illustration

1. Why it all matters

Chapter 1. The bigger picture

2. Foundations of design

Chapter 2. Separation of concerns

Chapter 3. Abstraction and encapsulation

Chapter 4. Designing for high performance

Chapter 5. Testing your software

3. Nailing down large systems

Chapter 6. Separation of concerns in practice

Chapter 7. Extensibility and flexibility

Chapter 8. The rules (and exceptions) of inheritance

Chapter 9. Keeping things lightweight

Chapter 10. Achieving loose coupling

4. What’s next?

Chapter 11. Onward and upward

Appendix Installing Python

  

  

Index

List of Figures ...

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