Clean Code, Robert C. Martin
Clean Code, Robert C. Martin
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Clean Code
A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Author: Robert C. Martin

Narrator: Theodore O'Brien

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/19/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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, is provided both in the audio and the pdf. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Francis on September 10, 2010

The first half of this book is well worth a read. Then I was reminded of Martin Fowler's (I think) comment that the original Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Software book was a response to the limitations of C++. It dovetailed so well into Java because Java has a lot of the same annoying limita......more

Goodreads review by Vladimir on April 14, 2011

This book makes some very good points, sometimes taking them to extreme ("Never write functions longer than 15 lines! Never write functions with more than three arguments!"). Some of these points were quite new and useful for me - YMMV. It's too Java-specific in a few places, and reading the last re......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on May 18, 2009

I had a tough time deciding between 3 or 4 stars. The book should be called Clean Java Code. Some of the concepts definitely translate to other languages, but it uses Java for all of the examples and some of the chapters are dedicated to Java-specific issues. I consider many of the the suggestions to......more

Goodreads review by Nariman on February 21, 2017

If you are a programmer, you must read it! full of good examples of how to write clean and readable code.......more

Goodreads review by David on May 16, 2014

I was extremely underwhelmed with Clean Code! As other reviewers have noted, this book completely Java-centric and incredibly narrow in its object-oriented focus. Nowhere on the front cover, spine, or back cover is this mentioned at all. Clean Code also relies heavily on other published works. In the......more