I remember that there was a good book that teaches you how to separate data and behavior. The internet is polluted with books and I cannot seem to find its name again and I want to read it on my free time. There was a quote that I will pharaphrase: Show me your data and I will know wthell your software does or something like that.
Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.
— Fred Brooks
And the book is called “The Mythical Man-Month“
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You might be mixing two things up. This book does not contain that quote, but it’s the one I’ve heard Bill recommend most often: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth (ISBN: 978-0-13-022418-7)
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Great book! But it’s about software project management in the 1970 and onwards at Bell Labs and IBM and not about what OP is actually looking for in his question. (I’m not criticising your answer, just clarifying)
For those interested, there’s a useful and very short summary on Wikipedia on “The Mythical Man-Month”.
no worries, I simply remembered the quote, not the book content. 