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No other book improved my coding style as much as the first edition of Refactoring. On a superficial level, it teaches you how to "clean up" code, according to
by mherrmann 8y ago
No other book improved my coding style as much as the first edition of Refactoring. On a superficial level, it teaches you how to "clean up" code, according to various patterns. But what it really does is give you a feeling for why the code should be improved in the first place. Highly recommended.
- cpeterso 8y agoOnce one adopts the refactoring mindset, its lessons and approaches can also infuse new code aka "prefactoring". :) Ken Pugh wrote a 2005 book called " Prefactoring: Extreme Abstraction - Extreme Separation - Extreme Reliability 1st Edition", which won a 2006 Dr. Dobbs' Jolt award. http://www.drdobbs.com/joltawards/2006-jolt-awards/187900423?pgno=3 http://www.drdobbs.com/joltawards/2006-jolt-awards/187900423...
- clumsysmurf 8y agoDid you also read "Refactoring to Patterns"? If so, could you compare that with Prefactoring ? https://industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/ https://industriallogic.com/xp/refactoring/
- cpeterso 8y agoSorry. I haven't read that book. :)