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Writing Usable APIs in Practice

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Giovanni Asproni expands upon the idea that usable APIs help writing clean code.

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Giovanni Asproni is an independent consultant, coach, trainer, architect, and developer specialized in helping companies and teams to become more effective at producing and delivering high quality software. He is a frequent conference speaker, and has been involved with the organization of several international conferences. He is a past Conference Chair of the London XPDay, and of the ACCU.

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Building on its thriving tech and startup community, SyncNorwich presents SyncConf 2013, a one-day Agile and Tech Conference in the heart of Norfolk. Syncing local and international speakers, ideas and investors.

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May 19, 2013

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    I assume you are referring to my example of reading a file line by line.

    Well, using java.util.Scanner is another way, admittedly cleaner in terms of readability, of doing it. However, my argument is still valid. In fact, I would argue that looking for java.util.Scanner is not obvious since the affordance is still not easily found.

    The all point is that reading line by line is a very common operation, so having some functionality that can be easily found makes the API easier to use.

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