Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series) Paperback – 1 Aug. 2008
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series) Paperback – 1 Aug. 2008

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S**M

Does what it says on the tin

Every so often, a book comes along that codifies best practice in a way that manages to illuminate the path from where things are right now, to a better place that we'd rather be -- things like Fowler et al. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Object Technology Series) or the Gang of Four Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software. This is one of those books. And if much of the material is the sort that seems obvious in hindsight -- well, that is the mark of a well written book, to make the concepts that clear.Taking a series of real world examples -- open source projects with significant user bases, including FitNesse and JUnit -- a series of worked examples take us from good, or at least adequate, code, to a form which is better factored, and easier to read, with the steps along the way clearly marked. Yes, even some of Kent Beck's code is put under the microscope, and carefully polished that extra stage or two more.The reader is cautioned that, without working long hours to follow these examples, this will be just another of those feel-good books. I don't quite agree -- spending just a little time to follow the transformations, and then reflecting on one's own outpourings should be enough to make this a feel-bad book. All the sins from obscurely named variables to sprawling functions that gaily mix abstraction levels, we've all done them (especially programming in FORTRAN on minicomputers with slow stacks and a rule of thumb that 1 call ~ 40 loc in terms of performance).The maxim to take from the book is based on Baden-Powell's "Try and leave this world a little better than you found it", and owes to the same school of thought as "whenever you are in the garden, pull at least one weed". The meat of the book is in distinguishing what are the weeds from the intended crop.So read it, understand the examples, and then refer to it often -- like the other titles mentioned, it is a reference work, and should join them as among the most thumbed on your bookshelf.

A**C

Everyone must read.

So good. So easy formulated. So useful. A lot of things are so obvious, but for some reason not many developers are following such elementary rules. Highly recommend to read, and doesn't metter if you experienced developer or just begginer. I also wish this book to be translated on indian languages. Guys, I very much like you. We are very close mentally. I have a lot of indian friends due to proffession. But, the way you coding is .... pleas, please, please - read this book.

A**S

I don’t know

The book was for my nephew and he loved

M**N

Book title needs refactoring

This is a great book, and one which any developer will learn a great deal from. In most respects, it is a five-star book, but... the title is misleading. By rights it should be called "Clean Java Code".Let me explain: I am an ActionScript developer, and bought this book to improve my code style and structure. For the most part, it has done that: the chapters on naming, comments, functions and classes are absolutely superb. But then, huge swathes of the book are devoted exclusively to Java, and use some fairly complex (and, in my opinion, not very well formatted) code to convey their intention.I don't generally have a problem with using Java-oriented books to learn more general programming concepts (Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" and O'Reilly's Head-First Design Patterns are both books I would recommend to anyone, regardless of their language-of-choice), but around 1/3rd of Bob Martin's book is virtually impenetrable to anyone who does not already have significant Java experience.That said, I should re-iterate that this book will be hugely valuable to any programmer. I just wish that they had tried to use a little more pseudo-code and a little less real-world examples, with all of the complexities entailed, and I think a lot could have been done to make the Java code more readable for users of other languages.

D**D

MUST have to any programmer

Seriously, EVERYONE learning to code or anyone in the software engineering industry MUST read this book and learn the principles by which all programs should be made thinking on.I'm not saying every single principle described in the book is applicable to absolutely all scenarios, but the big majority of them are.Following these, will help you write cleaner code that is easier to read and understand using less mental capacity, which will in turn allows your brain to be fresher for other tasks like refactoring. It will also help in communicating more effectively with your colleagues having a common framework to work on and make easier to pass on the knowledge to other colleagues.

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