A path through the forest

There's a lot of material to keep in mind as we plan each program layer, specify each class, and write each line of code. So how does all this translate into a concrete set of strategies for our code? And especially all that functional stuff--how does that fit in?

Here are some guidelines that we will follow in this book. It's not everything, of course, but a summary of the takeaways, as they say in the corporate world, representing the most important points presented here and how we intend to apply them.