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 Programming does not have to be painful November 25, 2008
Christian Treber (Muenster, NRW)
The "Pragmatic Programmer" gives you the philosophy for writing better code. "Clean Code" gives you the details of exactly how to do it. This is a great read for programmers who take their craft seriously and who want to write objectively better code (hey, I *do*). It is a great reference, too, for people whose job is to review and evaluate code (and who might have to explain *why* some code is good, or not).
I program since 1982, from Texas Instruments pocket calculators to J2EE Java. I have to admit my skills improved pretty slowly and I wish books like these would have been available years ago. And I wish, too, I would have had a bigger interest and insight that every craft can be improved - yes - gasp! - even my own programming style. Your code might work pretty well, but this book will challenge you to "expect more", and "do more". And, yes, it can be done.
If you're good at programming you probably will be familiar with a number of the ideas presented, and you'll find confirmation for practices that you felt were "the right thing to do". And then there will be some more tips to help you to improve your style.
The book summarizes frequent real world observations and resonates with my own experiences slogging through code messed-up beyond recognition by programmers who are just "getting the job done". Understanding, maintaining, and extending existing code should not be as painful as it way to often is. The book gives concrete, usable advice on how to do it better.
I would make both books a "must read" for programmers I hire - if they understand and like what is presented, they couldn't have a better start on better programming.
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