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Readme Driven Development (via) Tom Preston-Werner advocates for writing the readme before any other code. “Until you’ve written about your software, you have no idea what you’ll be coding.”

Posted 23rd August 2010 at 8:20 pm

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  1. We used to call those "design documents", not "READMEs".

    Greg Wilson - 23rd August 2010 22:47 - #

  2. A bit like writing comments first when writing code.

    Paul D. Waite - 24th August 2010 00:17 - #

  3. I know SimpleTest (PHP Unit Testing) was written the same way : the tutorial first. We call it Tutorial Driven Developpment !

    perrick - 24th August 2010 07:44 - #

  4. I guess that to receive the loan from creditors you must have a firm motivation. Nevertheless, one time I've got a commercial loan, because I was willing to buy a bike.

    loans - 17th October 2011 11:34 - #

  5. In any domain you get initiated in, there are some basic steps you need to follow. It`s rather simple and it makes all sense. It`s like succeeding in reading exe files after you have made sure there is compatibility between the files and the program in your system that reads them. You don`t want to pass by some very important advice and information you might need further on.

    Gabrielle Blunt - 6th November 2011 18:27 - #

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