Reputation: 85

Learn proper programming syles?

Where would one find information or just rather good ideas on what is considered proper programming ethics or methodology of how to format the code, comments, or even variable names so that it is easier to read the code at a later time?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 6

Answers (7)

Henric

Reputation: 1410

Clean Code is certainly a good book. Martin's Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# is my recommendation if you want a more .NET specific book.

Upvotes: 0

Journeyman Programmer

Reputation: 1366

Three books I consider essential for beginning OO programmers.

"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code".

Although modern IDEs often support automatic refactor, this book is still useful. By knowing the reason (or code smell) behind a particular refacoring, you can strive to write the correct code the first time.

"Pragmatic Programmer"

A wealth of best practices.

"Design Pattern"

Most advanced book, but still useful.

Upvotes: 0

Fossmo

Reputation: 2892

Including Code Complete and Clean Code I would recommend you to read "The pragmatic programmer" and "Ship it!". The last books mentioned are not so much about how to format the code, comments, ect. but rather about best practices for developers and development.

Upvotes: 0

Amokrane Chentir

Reputation: 30385

For C++ I use the C++ google style guide

Upvotes: 1

Peter Perháč

Reputation: 20792

The absolute 'must-read' for you is Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code. Do give it a try. It makes some awesome points. I keep recommending to everyone ever since I bought it 6 months ago.

Edit

I thought reading my Amazon review could help :)

Upvotes: 8