Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship

Join Robert C. Martin in this three-day hands-on course where you’ll learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in his book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

Why Clean Code?
Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

This course alternates between lecture and exercise so that students can experience, first-hand, the practices and disciplines of Clean Code. Each topic is driven home through the use of hands-on exercises in which the students must work together to write new code, or alter existing code to resolve, enhance and improve the quality of the code.

Audience
This course is for Java, C# and C++ developers.

All the exercises will be in Java. Students should bring their own laptops loaded with Java, an IDE, and JUnit.

• 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.
• Error Handling
• Boundaries between Subsystems
• Unit testing and Test Driven Development
• Writing Clean Classes
• Systems
• Plans vs. Emergence
• Concurrency
• Smells and Heuristics