One of the great things about Clean Code is that as you progress through the book, the concepts you cover become more abstract. To my mind, this practice mirrors how one gets better at the art of programming itself. When you begin reading Clean Code, you cover concepts like good…

For this week’s blog on Clean Code, I’m going to do something a little different. While up to this point we’ve discussed ways to keep code in our programs clean, we ought to spend some time thinking about how to expand our programs to be scalable systems. Just like our…

In this week’s blog on Clean Code, I’ll be talking a bit about classes. While object-oriented programming (OOP) is an extremely vast topic unto itself that I can’t delve into too deeply here, suffice to say for now that objects are bits of code that allow us to store data…

If you ask any professional developer what the most import part of a software developer’s job is, I’d bet more than half of them would say testing your code. To be sure, Test Driven Development (TDD) is the way of the world in software development, and Clean Code dedicates an…

I’m back to reviewing Clean Code this week after last week’s blog on Refactoring. And while the chapter I’m reviewing this week is short, the concept is incredibly important. This week I’m talking about boundaries, the way we incorporate code that we did not actually write into our systems. At…

I’ve been loving reading through Clean Code, but am taking a bit of a break this week to discuss the first chapter of Martin Fowler’s Refactoring. Like Clean Code, Refactoring is fairly famous amongst professional programmers for its clear and concise advice on how to write clean, readable, and highly…

I’m continuing my series on Clean Code this week, but I wanted to do something different with this blog post. When I first started reading Bob Martin’s classic handbook for writing better code, the advice given to me was to read it very, very slowly. If you have a physical…

As followers of this blog know, I’m currently reading through Clean Code, a classic in how to write readable, professional code. Written primarily by “Uncle Bob” Martin, with appearances from a number of leading thinkers in the field of AGILE software development, Clean Code isn’t exactly a step-by-step coding manual…

As followers of this blog may have noticed, I’ve been referencing Clean Code quite a bit the last several weeks. I started reading the book on the advice of a friend and fellow software engineer, who extolled the values of this classic programming text. I’ve been going through it very…