Best book for good programming practices

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Post by mrcoder111 » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 9:57 AM UTC

I'm a new college grad. I find my code still isn't very clean and I don't have a good answer to design decisions and abstraction decisions. What is a good book to make me a better programmer who can understand and write more complex codebases?

Re: Best book for good programming practices

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Post by lincpa » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 10:43 AM UTC

NASA’s 10 rules for writing mission-critical code: 1.Restrict all code to very simple control flow constructs.

        ----Gerard J. Holzmann, NASA JPL lead scientist.

Clojure Aphorism: A tangled web of mutation means any change to your code potentially occurs in the large.

        ---- The Joy of Clojure (2nd Edition, Chapter 10)

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

       ---- Linus Torvalds

Metaphors for a Richer Understanding of Software Development.

       ---- The most valuable chapter of "Code Complete" : Chapter 2

Principles-based are better than rules-based.

       ----International Accounting Standards

My Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow

Re: Best book for good programming practices

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Post by sidcool » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 10:46 AM UTC

Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnel

Clean Code by Robert Martin

Beautiful Code by Andy Ormen, Greg Wilson

Refactoring 2 by Martin Fowler

Re: Best book for good programming practices

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Post by mrcoder111 » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 4:29 AM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #3

Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnel Clean Code by Robert Martin Beautiful Code by Andy Ormen, Greg Wilson Refactoring 2 by Martin Fowler

Are any of these more closely tied to Python than the others?

Re: Best book for good programming practices

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Post by sidcool » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:16 AM UTC

mrcoder111 wrote: post #4

sidcool wrote: post #3

Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnel Clean Code by Robert Martin Beautiful Code by Andy Ormen, Greg Wilson Refactoring 2 by Martin Fowler

Are any of these more closely tied to Python than the others?

Refactoring 2nd edition is in JavaScript, so relatively closer than Java.