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 tone author Michael Stueben offers programming stories anecdotes
observations advice tricks examples and challenges based on his 38 years experience writing
code and teaching programming classes. Trying to teach style to beginners is notoriously
difficult and can easily appear pedantic. Instead this book offers solutions and many examples
to back up his ideas. Good Habits for Great Coding distills Stueben's three decades of
analyzing his own mistakes analyzing student mistakes searching for problems that teach
lessons and searching for simple examples to illustrate complex ideas. Having found that most
learn by trying out challenging problems and reflecting on them each chapter includes quizzes
and problems. The final chapter introduces dynamic programming to reduce complex problems to
subcases and illustrates many concepts discussed in the book. Code samples are provided in
Python and designed to be understandable by readers familiar with any modern programming
language. At the end of this book you will have acquired a lifetime of good coding advice the
lessons the author wishes he had learned when he was a novice. What You'll Learn Create
readable code through examples of good and bad style Write difficult algorithms by comparing
your code to the author's code Derive and code difficult algorithms using dynamic programming
Understand the psychology of the coding process Who This Book Is ForStudents or novice
programmers who have taken a beginning programming course and understand coding basics.Teachers
will appreciate the author's road-tested ideas that they may apply to their own teaching.
