The Art of Clean Code: Best Practices to Eliminate Complexity and Simplify Your Life
by Christian Mayer (Author)
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Booktalk: Learn eight principles to simplify your code and become a more effective (and successful) programmer with real-world examples:
- Concentrate on the important stuff with the 80/20 principle — focus on the 20% of your code that matters most
- Avoid coding in isolation: create a minimum viable product to get early feedback
- Write code cleanly and simply to eliminate clutter
- Avoid premature optimization that risks over-complicating code
- Balance your goals, capacity, and feedback to achieve the productive state of Flow
- Apply the Do One Thing Well philosophy to vastly improve functionality
- Design efficient user interfaces with the Less is More principle
- Tie your new skills together into one unifying principle: Focus
Snippet: Large companies like International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Microsoft, and Apple employ the Pareto principle to build faster, more user-friendly computers by channeling their focus on the vital few; that is, by repeatedly optimizing the 20 percent of the code that was executed most often by the average user. Not all code is created equal. A minority of code has a dominating impact on the user experience, while much of the code has little impact. You might double-click the File Explorer icon multiple times per day, but you seldom change the access rights of a file. The 80/20 principle tells you where to focus your optimization efforts!
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