Go and read Clean Code by Robert C. Martin. Now.

Question

I'm reading through it now and I'm about half way through. It's changing the way I code completely. I've been programming for a year and a half and for the last few months I felt like I wasn't making any progress in terms of learning the right way to code and the wrong way to code. Since starting the book I feel like I've made more progress in the last week than I have in the last 4 months. It's an amazing book and I can't put it down. Id recommend the book to any programmer. The examples are in java

Answer 1

No problem. I hope it benefits you as much as it's benefitting me. Just in case people are curious these are some of the things the book recommends:

Write short methods that only do one thing, no side effects

Use descriptive variable and method names

Keep classes relatively small

Keep the code as simple as possible