The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection (Collection) (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

You know you are working on clean code when each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

If you can’t pronounce it, you can’t discuss it without sounding like an idiot. “Well, over here on the bee cee arr three cee enn tee we have a pee ess zee kyew int, see?” This matters because programming is a social activity.

and someone might have transposed digits, thereby creating a bug while simultaneously evading the programmer’s search.

This book explodes with #programming wisdom

In general programmers are pretty smart people. Smart people sometimes like to show off their smarts by demonstrating their mental juggling abilities. After all, if you can reliably remember that r is the lower-cased version of the url with the host and scheme removed, then you must clearly be very smart. One difference between a smart programmer and a professional programmer is that the professional understands that clarity is king. Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.

very true

The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that.