Books by Robert C. Martin
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review 1: About half way through I got really tired of reading "a Professional programmer does this and doesn't do that." There are some good parts of the book, like the kata exercises. However, overall it seems more like a criticism of the programming profession. Nobody's perfect. We prog...
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review 1: This book is about how to improve the readability of your code. I like that the approach is very hands-on. The first chapters establish the base principles: how to chose better names, write smaller functions, write fewer and better comments, avoid bad comments, better structure y...
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review 1: A nuanced, highly personal reflection on what professionalism really means in the context of software development. As someone who inhabits both this world and the world of librarianship, it's a little striking to me how similar some of the meta-issues are in two "professional" bu...
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review 1: A great book on software craftsmanship. It is about:- making realistic commitments and keeping them- behaving rationally under pressure- having a good test strategy- writing code that is a pleasure to work with- being a good team member- overall, being a real software professiona...
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review 1: What I liked the most was to learn how to name functions, procedures, classes, objects, packages, etc.based in the principle that every piece of code has to do just one task at a time, but do it pretty well.Clean code should be like reading a good recipe for a delicious although ...
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review 1: Love this book. A lot of writers try to lecture us about how to be better programmers. For me Uncle Bob feels honest, straightforward and the real deal. He doesn't show off and he doesn't tell stories of his "real life" experience that don't add anything to the reader. His book i...