Clean Code: Writing Code for Humans
Inspired by Steve McConnel’s “Code Complete”, Uncle Bob’s “Clean Code” and Andrew Hunt’s “The Pragmatic Programmer”, this session reviews best practices for writing code in a style that’s easy to create, maintain and understand. We have a lofty goal: programming style as documentation. We’ll discuss concrete methods to get you there and give you a vocabulary for pragmatically evaluating code quality.
Various refactoring techniques, code smells, anti-patterns, and rules of thumb are discussed including fail fast, return early, separation of concerns, arrow code, magic numbers, the boy scout rule, being “stringly typed”, DRY, the stepdown rule, table-driven methods, the importance of staying native, techniques for finding subtle redundancy, reinventing the square wheel, when to create a method, doing comments right, horizontal and vertical density, and simple design patterns. Part of this session involves refactoring a confusing and ugly chunk of code into something beautiful, easy to read and maintain. While examples are in C#, coders in any language should be able to follow along and apply the principles discussed.
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Presented At:
- Kansas City Developer’s Conference 2012 – Rate this talk
- St. Louis Days of .Net 2012 & 2013 – Rate this talk
- Heartland Developer Conference 2012 – Rate this talk
- Iowa Code Camp 2012 – Rate this talk
- Topeka .NET User Group
- CodeStock 2013 – Rate this talk
- AJi Software Geek Lunch at Corporate Woods on 2/20/14
- Nebraska Code Camp 2014
- Prarie Dev Conference 2014
- Nashville .NET User Group – Rate this talk
- Codestock 2014 – Rate this talk
- DevLink 2014
- Codemash 2015 – Rate this talk
- Webcast for IHS
- Kansas City .NET User Group
- Quicken Loans Conference 2015
- NNIT in Copenhagen, Denmark – 3 Full Days of Clean Code training
- Staples – Clean Code Lunch in Kansas City
- VinSolutions Tech Talk
Feedback
.@housecor nailing clean code on stage at #codemash pic.twitter.com/hIfNhAEeWK
— Calvin Allen (@CalvinAllen_) January 9, 2015
No need to read the book “Clean Code” now. 😉 @housecor #codestock pic.twitter.com/HH7rGW3e21
— Tim McLeod (@timmcleod) July 13, 2013
Cory House – Clean Code session was great. If you didn’t see his presentation, get the slides! #hdc12
— Michael Munnis (@mmunnis) September 7, 2012
Yet another knockout talk by @housecor. He maintains his spot on my shortlist of amazing speakers. Inspired to write cleaner code #codemash
— John Strobel (@devunit1) January 9, 2015
Clean Code by @housecor has been the best of #codemash for me, so far.
— Phil Sherwood (@psherwood) January 9, 2015
@housecor is the type of speaker I’m going to go listen to regardless of topic. The clean code talk was great, thanks #codemash
— Lucas Krammes (@lkrammes) January 9, 2015
@housecor Fanastic talk! Time to renew my @pluralsight membership! #codemash
— Calvin Allen (@CalvinAllen_) January 9, 2015
@housecor Amazing Clean Code talk. Thanks for sharing.
— Brett Whittington (@BrettTheWhitt) January 9, 2015