SWCS

• things in source code that indicate problems

• not bugs but will make life harder later

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• duplicate code

• dead code

• commented code

• long methods / classes / parameter lists

• single letter variables

• unnecessary inheritance

• empty methods

Leave the code base a little bit cleaner than when you started working on it

You know youre working on clean code when every routine turns out to be exactly what one expected

• Clearly communicates intent

• embarrassingly simple

• capsulated

• is it elegant?

• is it minimal?

• is it easy to change?

• reveal intention

• avoid disinformation / ambiguities

• make meaningful distinctions

• avoid encodings

  • of scope or type

  • the ide does that

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