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Clean Code with C# - Second Edition

By : Jason Alls
4.5 (2)
Book Image

Clean Code with C# - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Jason Alls

Overview of this book

Traditionally associated with Windows desktop applications and game development, C# has expanded into web, cloud, and mobile development. However, despite its extensive coding features, professionals often encounter issues with efficiency, scalability, and maintainability due to poor code. Clean Code in C# guides you in identifying and resolving these problems using coding best practices. This book starts by comparing good and bad code to emphasize the importance of coding standards, principles, and methodologies. It then covers code reviews, unit testing, and test-driven development, and addresses cross-cutting concerns. As you advance through the chapters, you’ll discover programming best practices for objects, data structures, exception handling, and other aspects of writing C# computer programs. You’ll also explore API design and code quality enhancement tools, while studying examples of poor coding practices to understand what to avoid. By the end of this clean code book, you’ll have the developed the skills needed to apply industry-approved coding practices to write clean, readable, extendable, and maintainable C# code.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Breaking out of loops

What annoys some programmers and reduces the performance of the application is that the loop in the preceding code continues, even when the student has been found. We can improve the indentation and performance of the preceding code as follows:

public Student Find(List<Student> list, int id){
    Student r = null;
    foreach (var i in list)
    {
        if (i.Id == id)
        {
            r = i;
            break;
        }
    }
    return r;
}

In the preceding code, we have improved the formatting and made sure that the code is properly indented. We’ve added a break statement to the for loop so that the...