Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Brossura

Martin, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0132350882 ISBN 13: 9780132350884

Casa editrice: Pearson, 2008

Riassunto

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer―but only if you work at it.

What kind of work will you be doing? You’ll be reading code―lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what’s right about that code, and what’s wrong with it. More importantly, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft.

Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code―of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and “smells” gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code.

Readers will come away from this book understanding

• How to tell the difference between good and bad code
• How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code
• How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes
• How to format code for maximum readability
• How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic
• How to unit test and practice test-driven development

This book is a must for any developer, software engineer, project manager, team lead, or systems analyst with an interest in producing better code.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin has been a software professional since 1970 and an international software consultant since 1990. He is founder and president of Object Mentor, Inc., a team of experienced consultants who mentor their clients worldwide in the fields of C++, Java, C#, Ruby, OO, Design Patterns, UML, Agile Methodologies, and eXtreme programming.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Anyone with a modicum of industry experience knows that there is an awful lotof bad code out there. It's not that it's just unsightly. Code that is not clean canquite easily move beyond being a functional problem to becoming an expensiveorganizational issue that has to be dealt with immediately.There are no shortage of suggestions and methods for cleaning up your codeafter it has been written, but in this new book, Robert C. Martin espousesnipping these potential problems in the bud by cleaning on the fly, rather thandoing it in segments or waiting until the end of a project. The book is a tutorialand reference that will teach the reader to conceive and write cleaner codethrough a multitude of proven examples.This book shows the PROCESS of cleaning code. Rather than just illustratingthe end result, or just the starting and ending state, Martin shows how severaldozen seemingly small code changes can positively impact the performance andmaintainability of an application's code base. It will also explain why each ofthose changes was made. In the end the book will boil all these changes downinto a suite of heuristics and principles that will guide the reader in his owncode cleanups.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pearson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0132350882
• ISBN 13: 9780132350884
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Contatto del produttore: salesde@pearson.com; salesde@pearson.com; ; St.-Martin-Straße 82; München; 81541; Germania