I have heard a lot of people talk about Agile development methodology. The read agile manifesto and then they continue to do "waterfally" things. While this is a fairly interesting topic to discuss, I want to draw your attention towards people who created and signed this manifesto. I consider them the most influential people in the industry. It will be a very good idea to look at what they have to say about software. Let's pick one name "Robert C. Martin", popularly known as Uncle Bob.
Uncle Bob has authored and co-authored several books. He also has got an entire series of books under "Robert C Martin Series". I want to talk about a book that he has authored with title "Clean Code".
If there is just one book that you need to read then I would say that this is the book you need to read. At times people read books and then continue to produce shit, this is not such book. This will completely change the way you write your code. Although the examples are in Java, everything Uncle Bob says is mostly applicable to C#, Python, PHP etc. So, regardless of the technology you write your code in, do read this book. Don't be fooled by name of chapters in this book might sound simplistic to you (because there are entire chapters just of naming things, creating functions etc). This book has got potential to change the way you write your code forever. There is a lot of code in this book you have to take out time to read thru all of those and once you are done with the book; you will be a better developer.
What I just said might sound like a too big of promise to you. Just believe me, and buy this book.
Happy reading!
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