The Clean Coder

Just finished Bob Martin’s book, The Clean Coder. Excellent guide to professionalism in the Software Engineering industry. I highly recommend it.

Refactoring Code

I just finished Martin Fowler’s book describing code refactoring. Refactoring is a process of changing code to make it easier to understand and easier to build on. Its a process software engineers should go through regualrly whilst working with software, always asking the question could this be done better. The ultimate aim is to build functionality faster although at first it may seem like you are going to be slowing down as reworking code initially has no new functionality built in. However, the benefits when you start adding code become obvious in terms of creating the code faster and requiring less debugging later as the new code tends to get to a working state sooner. Later, when the code is revisited for additional improvements, you will find it easier to read and easier to rework.