Book Review: Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

great article.. I read that book and it's changed my way of coding..

I would call a programmer mediocre if they produce code that works when it goes into production but has many bugs when it is in production. To the extent that their code is buggy is partially the result of an inability to understand their own code, the ability to understand is relevant. In my opinon, the emphasis should be on the analysis phase, not the coding phase. The best programmers have a clean understanding of what they are doing. If they do, then their code will be easier to understand. When Structured Programming was new, many people thought that it was saying that code needs to be structured physically. That is not what it said. It said that software needs to be structured logically. Code can be structured physically to look pretty and still be spaghetti code.

Great review. I plan to order this book now.

Clean Code is one of my top 3 books. Uncle Bob did an incredible job putting all good manners together on that book. It doesn't care the language, Assembly, C#, Java or Ruby. Great developers with great sense of responsibility do great jobs with any kind of language.