Besides some of the very, very obvious (don’t copy/paste 100 lines of code, make it a function! Write comments for your future self who has forgotten this codebase 3 years from now!), I’m not sure how to write clean, efficient code that follows good practices.

In other words, I’m always privating my repos because I’m not sure if I’m doing some horrible beginner inefficiency/bad practice where I should be embarrassed for having written it, let alone for letting other people see it. Aside from https://refactoring.guru, where should I be learning and what should I be learning?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    3 months ago

    I myself don’t have any. Most of the books I studied with were in German. But I saw plenty in the library. And it depends on what you want. There are some on specific programming languages, or design patterns, or concepts like object oriented programming …