author : Dustin Boswell / Trevor Foucher
press: China Machine Press
Original name: The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
translator : Yin Zhe / Zheng Xiuwen
Year of publication: 2012-7-10
the number of pages: two hundred and forty
price: 59.00 yuan
Binding: paperback
Series: O'Reilly Boutique Book Series
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Details determine success or failure. Clear thinking and concise code makes programmers clear at a glance; However, programmers are confused by the messy and lengthy code. In addition to being able to run correctly, excellent code must have good readability, and the code must be written so that others can understand it in the shortest time. This book aims to emphasize the human friendliness and readability of code.

This book focuses on the details of coding and summarizes many tips to improve the readability of code, which seems insignificant, but for the development of the entire software system, they are as important as macro architecture decisions, design ideas, and guiding principles. Coding is not only a technology, but also an art, especially for writing readable code. If you want to become an excellent programmer and develop high-quality software systems, you must start from the details and learn both inside and outside. This book will provide you with effective guidance.

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Dustin Boswell Graduated from California Institute of Technology, he is a senior software engineer. He has worked at Google for many years and is responsible for web crawler and programming related work. He focuses on research and practice in front end, back end, server architecture, machine learning, big data, systems, websites and other technical fields, and has rich experience. He is now a software engineer at MyLikes.

Trevor Foucher He is a senior software engineer and technical manager. He has worked in Microsoft and Google for decades. He has served as a software engineer, technical manager and technical director of security products at Microsoft, and engaged in advertising application development and search infrastructure research and development related work at Google.

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Preface 1
Chapter 1 Code should be easy to understand 5
What makes code "better" 6
Basic theorem of readability 7
Always the smaller the better 7
Whether the time required to understand the code conflicts with other goals 8
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Find more expressive words send -> deliver, dispatch, announce, distribute, route find -> search, extract, locate, recover start -> launch, create, begin, open make -> create, set up, build, generate, compose, add, new ( View original text )

Yan 6 likes 2012-11-12 23:16:16

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Names like i, j, iter, and it are commonly used as indices and loop iterators. Even though these names are generic, they’re understood to mean “I am an iterator.” (In fact, if you used one of these names for some other purpose, it would be confusing—so don’t do that!) But sometimes there are better iterator names than i, j, and k. For instance, the following loops find which users belong to which clubs: ( View original text )

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one Useful Pecari tajacu 2013-11-06 09:55:23

At least one of the translators and his wife is not as serious as the translator's preface
two Useful Squirrel himself, Oreo 2014-02-06 21:06:10

In fact, most of the content import this covers a lot of truth, but it is still valuable to sum up. The greatest achievement is to learn how to name!
zero Useful Yellowish seta 2014-03-15 19:28:05

Very good. I learned some good habits. Although the book is not thick, it is worth reading,
zero Useful huangz 2012-10-28 11:54:07

I reread it once and found it very good. Hmm. The previous score was too low.
zero Useful Evil bird 2012-08-02 11:45:58

Although it's very motherly, it's very useful

zero Useful cosimo 2024-02-07 17:10:21 Beijing

Not bad years ago, I saw a lot of details in the afternoon of fishing. I have internalized them in my daily work. I don't want to write elegant code, but try to write as robust as possible, so that I can maintain it well, although sometimes the two are the same thing
zero Useful okfine 2023-10-07 15:52:26 Jiangsu

Scope of variables, readability of test code (similar to Spock), C++implementation of counters (time bucket)
one Useful GoXXIV 2023-08-12 22:53:44 Shandong

The comments in the previous section are not bad, but I will remember a sentence in the following chapters, which roughly means that I will spend 15 or 20 minutes to read the document every once in a while, in order to use the existing api to complete functions, reduce duplicate code and reduce errors.
zero Useful momo 2023-05-19 16:28:50 Shandong

It is comprehensive and suitable for beginners
zero Useful Elite Hero 2023-03-21 23:17:48 Sichuan

Start reading on March 21, 2023 I finished reading quickly today. This book is equivalent to a coding style specification book. Suitable for entry level players. Novice should also read it. Code testing is briefly mentioned in this book. You need to find information to study it in depth. I believe it will be helpful to work

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mftian 2012-10-01 11:07:59

Why does the code need to be readable?

One time when I was in code review, a recent graduate asked me why the code needs readability. I talked to him about the beauty and elegance, maintainability, and testability of code, but he said that what's the use of it? As long as it can run and realize functions, it's good code, isn't it? I can't deny this, but the code that can only realize the function is definitely not good code, just like the person who has not killed people is a good person ( open )

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Nina 2012-07-16 21:05:46

Short and pithy, benefited a lot

This book is short, pithy and fascinating. The translation is smooth and there is no obstacle in the reading process. The translated version is no more than 170 pages and is divided into 15 chapters for easy reference. They also inserted cartoons at appropriate places with ingenuity. Even those who are not patient enough to read the text can finish the book in a relaxed and happy mood. This book is indeed a condensed essence. ( open )

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Ants 2012-03-19 21:29:28 O'Reilly Media 2011

A practical, easy to read and humorous comic book

Then last November, I used the Kindle to read 20% of the good books I had left behind during my internship The name of this new book is also "The Art of xxx". It's easy for me to feel that this is a very rigorous and hard to read book. The TAOCP is unreadable by people like me who are extremely weak in mathematics, and TAOUP is also difficult for me to understand or even understand those who have hardly used Unix/Linux ( open )

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information 2012-07-24 22:53:42

Programming that benefits others and oneself

Regardless of whether the program mentioned in the book is optimal or not, this book gives a key lesson of programming ethics to programmers. Just as science has developed to a certain extent to discuss what morality scientists should have, this book also proposes the quality that an excellent and responsible programmer should have - making it easier for others to understand their own code. From Person ( open )

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To overcome the crash 2012-07-19 14:34:16

This is an undervalued book

"This is a book whose value has been underestimated," a friend said to me when he recommended it to me. Hearing such an evaluation, the author immediately began to read excitedly after getting the book, but because of some trivial things, I planned to finish reading and writing the book review within a week, but it was delayed for another two days. On the whole, I really benefited a lot. It is worth more than the money. As a programmer, when looking at other people's code ( open )

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anonymous 2014-01-08 00:21:28

Principles for writing readable code

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Because of the lack of artistic attitude, we just silently complain about the code that supports the system running for a long time with hundreds of lines of functions and variables spanning hundreds of lines. As for myself, I can still feel the bad smell when I look back at my code after a few weeks, as mentioned in Refactoring. I have to worship those masters who can make these seemingly miscellaneous ( open )

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accumulate steadily 2013-04-26 03:08:25

Focus on code quality, benefit the country and people

Main points of this book: 1 Elegant Naming 1.1 Naming is self explanatory (interpretive purpose) 1.2 It can add (necessary) more information (type information of Hungarian Naming) 1.3 Naming format is unified, such as kConstName Camel Naming or prefix is, has, can of the word underlined bool variable 1.4 Follow the orders of the industry ( open )

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Think too much... 2012-10-15 22:19:50

Low cost programming

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In addition to achieving goals, software development should also minimize costs. How to reduce costs? Regardless of project management, such as personnel allocation and task arrangement, what are there? In addition to clear and accurate requirements (reduce invalid programming) and good design (more skillfully achieve the goal of less makes more), I think it is coding quality. The cost of coding is divided into development cost and maintenance cost, the latter is ( open )

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TroyCheng 2013-05-30 13:44:17

Indeed, many problems are reflected in practice

When doing a refactoring project before, I found the problem of code quality. The code of some old modules was written horribly. Without documentation and any information, I had to read the code combing function with human flesh. I experienced various pains. Later, I also constantly instilled awareness of code quality in the group, and made some efforts in this regard. I turned this book by chance, and felt that I had found a bosom friend and named it ( open )

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Blue stone 2012-11-25 22:48:59 O'Reilly Media 2011

Notes on The art of readable code

Note 25 of The Art of Readable Code November2012 Foreword After joining a new company and accepting the code left by his predecessor, he felt a bit messy, so he took the opportunity to rewrite the whole code with a learning attitude. During this period, I took the book I read last year and reread it again. The examples in this book are the author's usual summaries. As an engineer of a top Internet company (Google) ( open )

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