Clean Code: A Handbook for Beginners to Learn How to Become a Better Programmer

by Jim Lewis

If you have a passion for programming and want to be a better programmer, then this is the right source. This handbook contains useful information about the techniques and approaches that help individuals boost not only their programming career but also their well-being.
The author of this book presents sound advice, which when you follow, you can find it easy to understand coding using any types of programming languages. With this book, you can understand the structure of the database, identify programming languages used by many programmers in the world, and various factors you should consider while choosing the language.
Becoming the best programmer depends on many factors apart from what you learn in your college or university. Most colleges focus mainly on the theoretical part of programming than on practical part. You need to continue doing programming every day to obtain new skills since programming evolves almost every time.
This book contains nine chapters that span the range of the life of a good software developer, including dealing with code, improving performance, and learning the trade with no bias in language. Reading this book will enable you to find valuable tips about becoming the best programmer, regardless of what you are at the moment. In fact, the book is suitable for all types of programmers like a hobbyist, a seasonal developer, or a neophyte professional.
Lastly, you will be able to learn about testing, debugging, coping with complexity, finding challenges, avoiding the problem, solving the problem effectively, using the right tools, and working with your team members well. The author believes that the first step to improving your programming skills is training your mind to think more logically and analytically. You can achieve this by associating with the right people; people who are willing to improve your programming skills. Read this book and see its positive impacts on your programming career.

90 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2019

About the author

Jim Lewis, born 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American novelist. Soon after he was born, his family moved to New York; there, and in London, he was raised. He received a degree in philosophy from Brown University in 1984, and an M.A. in the same subject from Columbia University, before deciding to leave academia.

Since then, he has published three novels, Sister (published by Graywolf in 1993), Why the Tree Loves the Ax (published by Crown in 1998), and The King is Dead (published by Knopf in 2003). All three have been published in the UK as well, and individually translated into several languages, including French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Greek.

In addition to his novels, he has written extensively on the visual arts, for dozens of magazines, from Artforum and Parkett to Harper's Bazaar; and contributed to 20 artist monographs, for museums around the world, among them, Richard Prince at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Christopher Wool at The Los Angeles Museum of Art, and a Larry Clark retrospective at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

He has also written criticism and reportage for a wide range of publications, among them The New York Times, Slate, Rolling Stone, GQ, and Vanity Fair. His essays have appeared in Granta, and Tin House, among others.

He has collaborated with the photographer Jack Pierson on a small book called Real Gone (published by Artspace Books in 1993), and collaborated with Larry Clark on the story for the movie Kids.

He currently lives in Austin, Texas.

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