Boswell, D: Art of Readable Code

Words; 6.9 Summary;Simplifying Loops and Logic; Chapter 7: Making Control Flow Easy to Read; 7.1 The Order of Arguments in Conditionals; 7.2 The Order of if/else Blocks; 7.3 The ?: Conditional Expression (a.k.a. "Ternary Operator"); 7.4 Avoid do/while Loops; 7.5 Returning Early from a Function; 7.6 The Infamous goto; 7.7 Minimize Nesting; 7.8 Can You Follow the Flow of Execution?; 7.9 Summary; Chapter 8: Breaking Down Giant Expressions; 8.1 Explaining Variables; 8.2 Summary Variables; 8.3 Using De Morgan's Laws; 8.4 Abusing Short-Circuit Logic; 8.5 Example: Wrestling with Complicated Logic; 8.6 Breaking Down Giant Statements; 8.7 Another Creative Way to Simplify Expressions; 8.8 Summary; Chapter 9: Variables and Readability; 9.1 Eliminating Variables; 9.2 Shrink the Scope of Your Variables; 9.3 Prefer Write-Once Variables; 9.4 A Final Example; 9.5 Summary;Reorganizing Your Code; Chapter 10: Extracting Unrelated Subproblems; 10.1 Introductory Example: findClosestLocation(); 10.2 Pure Utility Code; 10.3 Other General-Purpose Code; 10.4 Create a Lot of General-Purpose Code; 10.5 Project-Specific Functionality; 10.6 Simplifying an Existing Interface; 10.7 Reshaping an Interface to Your Needs; 10.8 Taking Things Too Far; 10.9 Summary; Chapter 11: One Task at a Time; 11.1 Tasks Can Be Small; 11.2 Extracting Values from an Object; 11.3 A Larger Example; 11.4 Summary; Chapter 12: Turning Thoughts into Code; 12.1 Describing Logic Clearly; 12.2 Knowing Your Libraries Helps; 12.3 Applying This Method to Larger Problems; 12.4 Summary; Chapter 13: Writing Less Code; 13.1 Don't Bother Implementing That Feature-You Won't Need It; 13.2 Question and Break Down Your Requirements; 13.3 Keeping Your Codebase Small; 13.4 Be Familiar with the Libraries Around You; 13.5 Example: Using Unix Tools Instead of Coding; 13.6 Summary;Selected Topics; Chapter 14: Testing and Readability; 14.1 Make Tests Easy to Read and Maintain; 14.2 What's Wrong with This Test?; 14.3 Making This Test More Readable; 14.4 Making Error Messages Readable; 14.5 Choosing Good Test Inputs; 14.6 Naming Test Functions; 14.7 What Was Wrong with That Test?; 14.8 Test-Friendly Development; 14.9 Going Too Far; 14.10 Summary; Chapter 15: Designing and Implementing a "Minute/Hour Counter"; 15.1 The Problem; 15.2 Defining the Class Interface; 15.3 Attempt 1: A Naive Solution; 15.4 Attempt 2: Conveyor Belt Design; 15.5 Attempt 3: A Time-Bucketed Design; 15.6 Comparing the Three Solutions; 15.7 Summary;Further Reading; Books on Writing High-Quality Code; Books on Various Programming Topics; Books of Historical Note;Colophon;