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Work InformationClean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
  
Books Read in 2022 (2,070) Books Read in 2021 (4,239) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) diegocorral | Mar 14, 2024 |   ) muhammadishaque | Aug 17, 2023 |  ) zeh | Jun 3, 2023 | However, I was disappointed by that section. As someone who codes and reviews code professionally, the case studies were not particularly enlightening. As seems obvious in retrospect, watching someone clean-up code in fairly straightforward ways is not interesting if you do and see that everyday. What I really wanted was a book on being a better code reviewer with advice on how to spot areas for improvement and convince others of the value of those improvements. The examples could be useful for someone who isn't in a code-review-heavy environment. Martin does a reasonably good job of taking code that may seem reasonable on the surface and improving its readabilty. That said, his comments indicate that he often has a higher opinion of the cleanliness of his end result than I do. As for the general advice and discussion of how to make clean code, I agree with a lot of his tips and disagree with others. Code cleanliness is an area where the core of just-plain-good ideas is surrounded by a nimbus of sometimes contradictory standards that people pick and choose from. The details of what you choose from the nimbus generally does not matter so much as consistency. (Of course, the real trouble occurs when people don't agree on what belongs in the core and what belongs in the nimbus.) The book definitely was not a bad read, but it did not fit my needs. [1] Still my favorite in the genre. ( ) eri_kars | Jul 10, 2022 | Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of problems: so many of the examples are either bogus or have glaring problems of their own, there's a lot of bloat and back-patting in the prose, and to say this book is programming language agnostic is a massive lie. There are large sections devoted to the most Java-centric issues and examples, and it renders a lot of the advice from these sections meaningless for anyone using a different language. My recommendation: start with the last chapter. If you feel like anything it says doesn't make sense or is unjustified, go back and read the related section. Reading the whole thing is a recipe for frustration. ( ) nitemice | Dec 28, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer-but only if you work at it. Clean Code is divided into three parts. - The first 13 chapters, fully contained in the audio, describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. - The second part, chapters 14 to 16, consists of several case studies of increasing complexity and is included in a pdf that comes with your purchase. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code-of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. You'll be reading code-lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what's right about that code, and what's wrong with it. - The third part, chapter 17. It is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and "smells" gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code. Listeners will come away from Clean Code understanding: - How to tell the difference between good and bad code - How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code - How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes - How to format code for maximum readability - How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic - How to unit test and practice test-driven development This book is a must for any developer, software engineer, project manager, team lead, or systems analyst with an interest in producing better code. No library descriptions found. |
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