Clean Code was one of the first books I read as a History student trying to become a self taught developer. From my point of view, coming from the rigor of historiography, the book was inconsistent and dogmatic. Still I took it as a replacement to talking with an experienced engineer, because that’s how it felt and most of the principles were fine when not taken to the extreme.
But now in my career I’ve seen awfully unnecessarily complex code in the name of the SOLID principles and others like DRY. Other times completely misunderstanding what the principles stand for and applying them in hand wavy ways.
This is a personal stretch, but even the marketing behind the principles is a bit of a red flag for me (Clean Code, SOLID, UNCLE BOB????). To me it sounds like someone made a career out of this.
I wish we had a better book to recommend to newcomers.
But now in my career I’ve seen awfully unnecessarily complex code in the name of the SOLID principles and others like DRY. Other times completely misunderstanding what the principles stand for and applying them in hand wavy ways.
This is a personal stretch, but even the marketing behind the principles is a bit of a red flag for me (Clean Code, SOLID, UNCLE BOB????). To me it sounds like someone made a career out of this.
I wish we had a better book to recommend to newcomers.