Roboticon 2016 - Improving Code Through Readability

Further pursue this aspect of the craft

• Read: Clean Code - Uncle Bob
• Watch: Cleancoders.com: videos 1 to 5 - Uncle Bob (Full Disclosure: his videos are light hearted and a bit odd at times, but worth their weight in gold.)
• Read: Good naming is a process, not a single step - Arlo Belshee
• Read: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler

Don't forget to try it yourself

• start your terminal, clone the repo, navigate to the folder
• run irb
• load './character.rb'
• c = Character.new
• c.dmg(:magic, 20, 0, false, nil)
• c.dmg(:shadow, 15, 6, true, nil)
• exit
• Refactor for readability!

Then move on to these

• https://github.com/emilybache/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata
• https://github.com/emilybache/Tennis-Refactoring-Kata

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Talk Notes

Nothing to see, move along.

Intro

https://prezi.com/emgumynt_ewr/improving-code-through-readability/

Code Touch Points

• magic values
• expressive names
• duplication
• design through functions
• comments
• expressive conditionals
• reducing complexity through removing conditionals
• func args
• touch back on naming and talk towards the 7 step process