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Clean Code with C# - Second Edition

By : Jason Alls
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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)

Summary

An API is a set of rules and protocols that enables one software application to interact with another. APIs facilitate communication between different software systems, allowing them to exchange data and functionality. There are different types of APIs, including web APIs, library APIs, and operating system APIs.

API operations can be categorized as idempotent or non-idempotent. Idempotent operations can be repeated multiple times without them changing the result, making them safer for retries in case of failures. Non-idempotent operations, on the other hand, may yield different results with each execution.

APIs often use HTTP verbs to define the operation that should be performed. Common HTTP verbs include GET (retrieve data), POST (create data), PUT (update data), and DELETE (remove data).

API design involves considering aspects such as endpoint structure, data format (typically JSON or XML), error handling, versioning, and authentication. A well-designed API promotes...