The Art of Clean Code: Best Practices to Eliminate Complexity and Simplify Your Life

178 Pages·2022·5.724 MB·English

by  Christian Mayer

T H E A R T O F
C L E A N C O D E
B E S T P R A C T I C E S T O E L I M I N A T E
C O M P L E X I T Y A N D S I M P L I F Y Y O U R L I F E
C H R I S T I A N M AY E R

THE ART OF CLEAN CODE

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by Christian Mayer
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To my kids, Amalie and Gabriel

About the Author
Christian Mayer is the founder of the popular Python site Finxter.com, an
educational platform that helps teach more than five million people a year
how to program. He has a PhD in computer science and has published
a number of books, including Python One-Liners (No Starch Press, 2020),
Leaving the Rat Race with Python (2021), and the Coffee Break Python series.
About the Technical Reviewer
Noah Spahn has a wide-ranging background in software engineering.
He has a master’s degree in software engineering from California State
University, Fullerton, and currently works in the Computer Security Group
at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Noah has taught
Python courses at the UCSB Interdisciplinary Collaboratory and an upper
division course on the Concepts of Programming Languages at Westmont
College. Noah is glad to teach anyone who is interested in learning.