Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin)

Anyone with a modicum of industry experience knows that there is an awful lot

of bad code out there. It's not that it's just unsightly. Code that is not clean can

quite easily move beyond being a functional problem to becoming an expensive

organizational issue that has to be dealt with immediately.

There are no shortage of suggestions and methods for cleaning up your code

after it has been written, but in this new book, Robert C. Martin espouses

nipping these potential problems in the bud by cleaning on the fly, rather than

doing it in segments or waiting until the end of a project. The book is a tutorial

and reference that will teach the reader to conceive and write cleaner code

through a multitude of proven examples.

This book shows the PROCESS of cleaning code. Rather than just illustrating

the end result, or just the starting and ending state, Martin shows how several

dozen seemingly small code changes can positively impact the performance and

maintainability of an application's code base. It will also explain why each of

those changes was made. In the end the book will boil all these changes down

into a suite of heuristics and principles that will guide the reader in his own

code cleanups.