Goal
The path to "リファクタリング"
Here is the reading path leading up to this book, derived from its dependencies and ordered from the fundamentals.
The path so far (3 books)
Why read this first: After grasping the basics of readability such as naming and function decomposition, you move on to binding them into principles of why. Clean Code connects individual techniques into a coherent system of craftsmanship and design principles.
Why read this first: After adopting the pragmatic mindset of keeping code healthy, you ground those attitudes in concrete quality standards at the function and class level. Clean Code systematizes what good code is through principles and worked examples.
Why read this first: Once you know what good code looks like, you need techniques to safely move existing code toward that standard. Refactoring offers a systematic way to improve structure without changing behavior, guided by code smells.