Название: Art of Clean Code: How to Write Codes for Human
Автор: Roosnam Seefan
Издательство: R. Seefan
Год: 2019
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.17 MB

The Clean code approach is a coding style that provides software to be quick and easy reading and understanding. With the rapid surge of platforms such as Linux, Git, readability of code has become an important aspect in modern computing. But we're not merely writing code for computer consumption. However, a change has been observed and we are now turning towards human than a machine for explaining codes. Considering the latest development, the book introduces the clean code concepts and some tips and tricks on clean coding also.

The modern era has identified software development as an ever-developing process. In other words, this also ensures the scalability of the program to some extent. Hence, software development needs to go beyond the spatial domain as well as the temporal domain. This phenomenon ignites the importance of code readability in the software industry.

Therefore, readability of the code is becoming the vital feature of the product in software development. Hence, code readability needs to be one of the very first things to learn and adapt for the young programmers. Furthermore, besides the fundamental courses, such an important topic should be cultured in the higher-level courses and industrial pieces of training. However, might be due to the negligence, lessons, and tips on code readability at the higher and professional level are missing.

On a different note, comments are considered as the explanation of a programming code that is applied by the programmers to make the code human-readable. And hence, a lot of code readability discussions ended up with a chicken and egg situation; which is the importance of comment. Till date, this is an inconclusive debate since commenting strategy includes both benefits and setbacks to the code. Well, those who are working in the software development industry, most likely have already experienced such discussions.

If the developers' community is asked about the necessity of comments in the codes, we will get diversified feedback. Some might say comments are must for the developers while the others would state it's a lost cause.

Meanwhile, if I was asked about my opinion on the necessity of comments, my stand is not purely black and white. To me, if you feel commenting adds value to your code, you shouldn't give any second thought and need to incorporate commenting effectively. Apparently, some basic and fundamental tips are very often violated by the codes which make comments as the black sheep in the code. Our discussion will mostly focus on what not to do while commenting on this book.

Moreover, in order to make a clean and readable code, we need to ensure,