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Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
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Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

by Robert C. Martin
May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 5m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Foreword

You’ve picked up this book, so I assume you are a software professional. That’s good; so am I. And since I have your attention, let me tell you why I picked up this book.

It all starts a short time ago in a place not too far away. Cue the curtain, lights and camera, Charley ....

Several years ago I was working at a medium-sized corporation selling highly regulated products. You know the type; we sat in a cubicle farm in a three-story building, directors and up had private offices, and getting everyone you needed into the same room for a meeting took a week or so.

We were operating in a very competitive market when the government opened up a new product.

Suddenly we had an entirely new set of potential customers; all we had to do was ...

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