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    Bad Programming Practices 101: Become a Better Coder by Learning How (Not) to Program

     
    Bad Programming Practices 101: Become a Better Coder by Learning How (Not) to Program

    Description

    This book takes a humorous slant on the programming practice manual by reversing the usual approach: under the pretence of teaching you how to become the world"s worst programmer who generally causes chaos, the book teaches you how to avoid the kind of bad habits that introduce bugs or cause code contributions to be rejected.

    Why be a code monkey when you can be a chaos monkey? OK, so you want to become a terrible programmer. You want to write code that gets vigorously rejected in review. You look forward to reading feedback plastered in comments like "WTF???". Even better, you fantasize about your bug-ridden changes sneaking through and causing untold chaos in the codebase. You want to build a reputation as someone who writes creaky, messy, error-prone garbage that frustrates your colleagues. Bad Programming Practices 101 will help you achieve that goal a whole lot quicker by teaching you an array of bad habits that will allow you to cause maximumchaos.

    Alternatively, you could use this book to identify those bad habits and learn to avoid them. The bad practices are organized into topics that form the basis of programming (layout, variables, loops, modules, and so on). It's been remarked that to become a good programmer, you must first write 10,000 lines of bad code to get it all out of your system. This book is aimed at programmers who have so far written only a small portion of that. By learning about poor programming habits, you will learn good practices. In addition, you will find out the motivation behind each practice, so you can learn why it is considered good and not simply get a list of rules.


    What You'll Learn
    Become a better coder by learning how (not) to program

    Choose your tools wisely

    Think of programming as problem solving

    Discover the consequences of a program"s appearance and overall structure

    Explain poor use of variables in programs

    Avoid bad habits and common mistakes when using conditionals and loops

    See how poor error-handling makes for unstable programs

    Sidestep bad practices related specifically to object-oriented programming

    Mitigate the effects of ineffectual and inadequate bug location and testing



    Who This Book Is For

    Those who have some practical programming knowledge (can program in at least one programming language), but little or no professional experience, which they would like to quickly build up. They are either still undergoing training in software development, or are at the beginning of their programming career. They have at most 1-2 years of professional experience.

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9781484234105
    Edition:
    1st ed.
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    248
    Publication date:
    2018-02-09
    Publisher:
    Apress
    Manufacturer:
    Unknown
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781484234105
    Edition:
    1st ed.
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    248
    Publication date:
    2018-02-09
    Publisher:
    Apress
    Manufacturer:
    Unknown

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