Docs for Developers

Jared Bhatti, Heidi Waterhouse

Learn to integrate the craft of writing with the craft of programming. This book teaches you how to create documentation for each step in the software development lifecycle, from understanding your user’s needs to publishing, measuring, and maintaining useful developer documentation. A well-documented project saves time for both developers on the project and users of the software, and projects without adequate documentation suffer from poor developer productivity, project scalability, user adoption, and accessibility. In short: bad documentation kills projects. Docs for Developers demystifies the process of creating great developer documentation, following a team of software developers as they work to launch a new product. At each step along the way, you learn through examples, templates, and principles how to create, measure, and maintain documentation, which you can adapt to...