August 15, 2008
I’ve just finished placing an order for Robert Martin’s, “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.” From the book’s description on Amazon:
Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code—of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and “smells” gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code.
There’s not much out there that I’ve found that covers this sort of material and given Martin’s long association with Object Mentor I have high expectations for this book.