If we don’t give enough thought to the names we use, our code can become more difficult to understand because it’s unclear who does what. Different variables that seem to be the same In some cases, our code can be hard to understand because we don’t make meaningful distinctions when choosing names, take the following…
Usually the main problem with code is that it can be hard to understand. Most of the time it’s hard to grasp what the code does because we don’t have enough information readily available. In other cases, the problem is that the code lies to us. It lies because it’s giving us information that simply…
In your code, the names you choose should tell anyone reading it what you intend to do with that class, function or variable. You shouldn’t rely on comments (more about this in a future post) to explain what your code does. The importance of declaring your intention Code should be easy to read. Good code is easy…
Continuing our study of the Clean Code series, we will now talk about the importance of using the right names for our variables, functions, classes, etc. Are the names we use really that important? In one word: Yes! Why names are important Over time I have come to appreciate just how important the names we…
Whenever I go to a meetup, presentation, etc. there is one thing that has always surprised me. People are afraid of saying that they don’t know something. What usually happens Usually at the beginning of a presentation the speaker will ask the audience if they have any experience in the topic that he is about…
In case you don’t know what the ternary operator is and want a thorough explanation you can read this article. If you want a quick refresher, the ternary operator (?) is a very compact way to do an assignment that depends on an if-else statement. For example string result = “”; if (DoSomething()){ result =…
Have you ever tried to read someone else’s code? It can be quite an adventure. Weird variable names, functions that don’t explain what they do. Object names that don’t seem to be right. If you’ve ever had this happen to you then you know why code has to be clean. If this has ever happened…
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