Is There a Book About Coding That Can Improve Your Skills? Yes!

There are many great books that can help you in your learning journey and can be useful, but here we will speak about a different kind of book. The book that you will need if you want to level up.

Clean Code

In this article, I would like to share with you the book that really made my vision about coding a bit different and that helped me to improve some of my skills.

To be honest, finding a book about coding is not that simple. I speak about the books that could improve your knowledge and not learn you a new topic like JavaScript or any other programming language.

I was one of that people who has already got all the necessary basic skills but because I was a self-taught developer, I didn’t have anybody to advise me on how can I make my code better.

And finally, after some time of research, I found that book that really improved my knowledge of coding best practices.

And it is…

Clean Code

by Robert C. Martin

I am sure that you have already heard about it and I think you were hesitating to buy it. I can understand because I was exactly the same.

Well, to be honest, it could be not easy reading for a not native speaker but I can tell you that will still understand everything very well (English is not my native language).

Why this book?

The answer is very simple, it is the kind of book that you should just have on your shelf and read from time to time if you have any questions.

It is a book that is really universal and can be applied to any programming language.

You will find a lot of great advice from a very experienced person. Some of them could be a little bit outdated but the base remains the same forever.

What I have learned from this book?

1. The real meaning of Clean code (obviously it should be in the book 😄)
2. The importance of giving the narrative names for the functions and the variables
3. How to make the code more readable
4. Better organization of the functions
5. How and when to write comments

And much more…

Conclusion

If you are on that level of your experience when you know how to code and you want to become a better developer. This book is for you.

And here is the link, if you want to take a look at it.

Thank you for reading and I hope this article was useful for you! 😊