The Art of Readable Code
Recommended by Hadley Wickham, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #71 in Software Engineering, Ranked #77 in IT — see more rankings.
As programmers, we’ve all seen source code that’s so ugly and buggy it makes our brain ache. Over the past five years, authors Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher have analyzed hundreds of examples of "bad code" (much of it their own) to determine why they’re bad and how they could be improved. Their conclusion? You need to write code that minimizes the time it would take someone else to understand it—even if that someone else is you.
This book focuses on basic principles and practical techniques you can apply every time you write code. Using easy-to-digest code examples from... more
This book focuses on basic principles and practical techniques you can apply every time you write code. Using easy-to-digest code examples from... more
Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of The Art of Readable Code from the world's leading experts.
Hadley Wickham This book gives you a series of techniques to make ‘code smell’ go away. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Art of Readable Code is ranked in the following categories:
- #80 in Programming
Similar Books
If you like The Art of Readable Code, check out these similar top-rated books:
