This chapter evangelizes my personal favorite principles of code quality. It’s neither an introduction to coding nor a comprehensive guide to writing good code but instead a small set of selected subjects I consider relevant to engineers adapting their academic skills to professional software. I’ll note that a couple of these points (like “Don’t Check Conditions that Your Codebase Precludes”) may be controversial; if your team fervently rejects them, you can do your best to persuade, but remember that “You Can’t Change Everything on Your First Day” (Chapter 9) and you should, when in ...
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