Good Habits for Great Coding Improving Programming Skills with Examples in Python /

• Main Author: Stueben, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Python (Computer program language).; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Algorithms.; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Computer programming.; Python.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Coding and Information Theory.; Programming Techniques.

Improve your coding skills and learn how to write readable code. Rather than teach basic programming, this book presumes that readers understand the fundamentals, and offers time-honed best practices for style, design, documenting, testing, refactoring, and more. Taking an informal, conversational t...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Not Learned in School
• 1. A Coding Fantasy
• 2. Coding Tricks
• 3. Style
• 4. More Coding Tricks
• Part 2: Coding Advice
• 5. Function Design
• 6. Self-Documenting Code
• 7. Step-Wise Refinement
• 8. Comments
• 9. Stop Coding
• 10. Testing
• 11. Defensive Programming
• 12. Refactoring
• 13. Write The Tests First (Sometimes)
• 14. Expert Advice
• Part 3: Perspective
• 15. A Lesson In Design
• 16. Beware Of OOP
• 17. The Evolution Of A Function
• 18. Do Not Snub Inefficient Algorithms
• Part 4: Walk the Walk
• 19.Problems Worth Solving
• 20. Problem Solving
• 21. Dynamic Programming.