Good Habits for Great Coding

Improve your coding skills and learn how to write readable code. Rather than teach basic programming, this book presumes that readers understand the fundamentals and offers time-honed best practices for style, design, documenting, testing, refactoring, and more. Taking an informal, conversational tone, author Michael Stueben shares programming stories, anecdotes, observations, advice, tricks, examples, and challenges based on his 38 years of experience writing code and teaching programming classes. Teaching style to beginners is notoriously difficult and can easily appear pedantic. Instead, this book offers solutions and many examples to support his ideas. Good Habits for Great Coding distills Stueben's three decades of analyzing his own mistakes, analyzing student mistakes, searching for problems that teach lessons, and finding simple examples to illustrate complex ideas.