Overview:

Anyone can write code a computer can understand, but professional developers write code *humans* can understand. Clean code is a reader-focused development style that produces software that’s easy to write, read and maintain. This Clean Code workshop alternates between lectures and exercises so that you can experience, first-hand, the practices and disciplines of the following topics:

Objective:

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to

• Professionalism, Craftsmanship, and Clean Code.
• Choosing Meaningful Names
• Writing Clean Functions
• The Proper Use of Comments
• Coding Style and Formatting
• Object-Oriented Programming vs. Procedural Programming vs functional programming.
• Error Handling Boundaries between Subsystems
• Writing Clean Classes Systems
• Plan vs. Emergence
• Concurrency
• Smells and Heuristics.
• Develop an attitude of professional craftsmanship.
• Tell the difference between good and bad code.
• Create and write good code and transform bad code into good code.
• Create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes.
• Format code for maximum readability.
• Implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic.
• Apply effective unit testing and refactoring techniques.
• Spot the smells in your code
• Refactor your code using safe and fast refactoring techniques
• Write clean code that is more readable and maintainable
• Break long methods into smaller, more maintainable ones
• Simplify nested / complex conditional blocks
• Design the proper signature for your methods
• Remove duplicated code
• Refactor long switch/case blocks into an object-oriented design using polymorphism

Audience:

This course is for Java/C#/C++ developers who want to improve their ability to contribute to their company and their team by writing better code.

Pre-Requisite:

Object-Oriented Programming basics (inheritance; encapsulation; polymorphism; interfaces; abstract classes; virtual methods; overriding; overloading).