Summary

Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher analyzed hundreds of examples of bad code, much of it their own, to work out why it was hard to read and what fixes actually helped, then built the book around one governing test: code should minimize the time it takes someone else, including your future self, to understand it. It moves from surface-level fixes, naming, comments, and formatting, to simplifying loops, logic, and variables, and finally to function-level reorganization such as extracting unrelated subproblems and doing one thing at a time. Its examples span multiple languages, which keeps the advice about the reader's experience of code rather than any one language's idioms.

Target Readers

• Developers past their first year who are starting to notice their own code is hard to revisit, but don't yet have a vocabulary for why
• Teams establishing a shared standard for naming and code review comments before adopting something like Clean Code
• Engineers who want the reasoning behind readability advice illustrated with real before-and-after code, not just a style guide's rules

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Publisher

O'Reilly Japan

ISBN

978-4873115658

Published

Jun 2012

List price

¥2,640incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon