The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code

This book focuses on basic principles and practical techniques you can apply every time you write code. Using easy-to-digest code examples from different languages, each chapter dives into a different aspect of coding, and demonstrates how you can make your code easy to understand.

• Simplify naming, commenting, and formatting with tips that apply to every line of code

• Refine your program’s loops, logic, and variables to reduce complexity and confusion

• Attack problems at the function level, such as reorganizing blocks of code to do one task at a time

• Write effective test code that is thorough and concise—as well as readable

Dustin Boswell graduated from CalTech, and worked at Google for five years on web crawling infrastructure and ad programs. He's built several websites and enjoys working on big data and machine learning.

Trevor Foucher has spent the past decade at Microsoft as an engineer, manager, and tech lead on Windows and security products, and at Google working on ad programs and search infrastructure.