Read a lot of code. Write a lot of code. I read a lot of books too but most were not especially enlightening. Probably the most influential thing in how I wri

Read a lot of code. Write a lot of code. I read a lot of books too but most were not especially enlightening. Probably the most influential thing in how I write software was what I learned in English in high school about structuring essays (I.e. classic rhetoric). A lot of analogies there in my opinion.