Anyone with a modicum of industry experience knows that there is an awful lot of bad code out
there. It's not that it's just unsightly. Code that is not clean can quite easily move beyond
being a functional problem to becoming an expensive organizational issue that has to be dealt
with immediately. There are no shortage of suggestions and methods for cleaning up your code
after it has been written but in this new book Robert C. Martin espouses nipping these
potential problems in the bud by cleaning on the fly rather than doing it in segments or
waiting until the end of a project. The book is a tutorial and reference that will teach the
reader to conceive and write cleaner code through a multitude of proven examples. This book
shows the PROCESS of cleaning code. Rather than just illustrating the end result or just the
starting and ending state Martin shows how several dozen seemingly small code changes can
positively impact the performance and maintainability of an application's code base. It will
also explain why each of those changes was made. In the end the book will boil all these
changes down into a suite of heuristics and principles that will guide the reader in his own
code cleanups.
