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rodhilton's review
5.0
This book covers a great deal of material: Martin talks about the basic practices of agile software development, the principles of good object-oriented design, and common OO design patterns.
This book is, in my opinion, a career-changer. Having a single book that teaches what it essentially means to move from being a programmer to a real software craftsman is invaluable. I'd recommend this for any experienced programmer who wants to transition to a more professional approach to writing high quality, maintainable code.
In this book, Martin avoids a problem that plagued Clean Code - most of the code examples here are short, making it less problematic that they lack any kind of formatting to aid readability. My main problem with the book was that I personally don't think C++ code ever "looks" good, so examples that illustrated how to clean C++ code weren't as impactful for me as the Java examples. I think I would have preferred the C-based code to be in C# instead.
Overall, this is an excellent book that really helped me grow into a software craftsman. Occasionally, some of the code examples drag on a bit long, and occasionally the examples look overengineered (a common problem when using code short enough to illustrate a single thing), but the book is so good otherwise that it's worth slogging through the occasional rough patches.
This book is, in my opinion, a career-changer. Having a single book that teaches what it essentially means to move from being a programmer to a real software craftsman is invaluable. I'd recommend this for any experienced programmer who wants to transition to a more professional approach to writing high quality, maintainable code.
In this book, Martin avoids a problem that plagued Clean Code - most of the code examples here are short, making it less problematic that they lack any kind of formatting to aid readability. My main problem with the book was that I personally don't think C++ code ever "looks" good, so examples that illustrated how to clean C++ code weren't as impactful for me as the Java examples. I think I would have preferred the C-based code to be in C# instead.
Overall, this is an excellent book that really helped me grow into a software craftsman. Occasionally, some of the code examples drag on a bit long, and occasionally the examples look overengineered (a common problem when using code short enough to illustrate a single thing), but the book is so good otherwise that it's worth slogging through the occasional rough patches.
tillchen's review
3.0
The first few chapters until SOLID and design patterns are more relevant to Agile.
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