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Clean Code in C#

By : Jason Alls
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Clean Code in C#

By: Jason Alls

Overview of this book

Traditionally associated with developing Windows desktop applications and games, C# is now used in a wide variety of domains, such as web and cloud apps, and has become increasingly popular for mobile development. Despite its extensive coding features, professionals experience problems related to efficiency, scalability, and maintainability because of bad code. Clean Code in C# will help you identify these problems and solve them using coding best practices. The book starts with a comparison of good and bad code, helping you understand the importance of coding standards, principles, and methodologies. You’ll then get to grips with code reviews and their role in improving your code while ensuring that you adhere to industry-recognized coding standards. This C# book covers unit testing, delves into test-driven development, and addresses cross-cutting concerns. You’ll explore good programming practices for objects, data structures, exception handling, and other aspects of writing C# computer programs. Once you’ve studied API design and discovered tools for improving code quality, you’ll look at examples of bad code and understand which coding practices you should avoid. By the end of this clean code book, you’ll have the developed skills you need in order to apply industry-approved coding practices to write clean, readable, extendable, and maintainable C# code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Chapter 13

  1. Application-level, class-level, and method-level.
  2. Boolean blindness, combinatorial explosion, contrived complexity, data clump, deodorant comments, duplicate code, lost intent, mutation of variables, oddball solution, shotgun surgery, solution sprawl, and uncontrolled side effects.
  1. Cyclomatic complexity, divergent change, downcasting, excessive literal use, feature envy, inappropriate intimacy, indecent exposure, large class (also known as God object), lazy class (also known as freeloader and lazy object), middleman class, an orphan class of variables and constants, primitive obsession, refused bequest, speculative generality, Tell, don't ask!, and temporary field.
  2. Black sheep, cyclomatic complexity, contrived complexity, dead code, excessive data return, feature envy, identifier size, inappropriate intimacy, long line aka God line, lazy method, long method (God method), long parameter list (too many parameters...