Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, 2nd Edition

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Clean Code

“‘Clean’ isn’t a ding at anyone. Our notion of ‘unclean’ is a way of characterizing code that demands more effort from the average developer to understand or maintain.”

—Jeff Langr

You are reading this book for two reasons. First, you are a programmer. Second, you want to be a better programmer. Good. We need better programmers.

This is a book about good programming. It is filled with code. We are going to look at code from every different direction. We’ll look down at it from the top, up at it from the bottom, and through it from the inside out. By the time we are done, we’re going to know a lot about code. What’s more, we’ll ...