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Department of Informatics and Computing Engineering

04 de abril de 2019

What is Clean code?

Clean code is a philosophy of development which the main objective is to apply simple techniques that aim to facilitate the write and the read of the code, making it to easy comprehend and showing it is real intention.

You may think that cleaning the code is a complex task but you are mistaken. Changing the name of a variable for a better one, convert complex and extensive functions to simpler and shorter functions, reduce the number of conditional rules are some of the extensive number of things that we can apply the concept of clean code in your codes.

Why should I use Clean Code?

The productivity of a programmer is directly connected to the quality of the code he works with. Therefore, realize a maintenance of the software is more complicated than develop the same software from beginning.

It is impossible to write code without reading it, we are constantly reading an old code when we are creating a new one. So, it’s very important to write code that helps the reading of the same. If you want to be a better and more productive, you have to start to write cleaner code.

Conclusion

As we use the Clean Code practices, we produce or expand your sensibility to the bad code we write or read and start immediately to think in different ways for cleaning and refactor it. If you want to learn more about this topic, you should read: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship of Robert C. Martin.

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By Luís Saraiva

Department of Informatics and Computing Engineering

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