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Roboticon 2016 - Improving Code Through Readability

Further pursue this aspect of the craft

Read: Clean Code - Uncle Bob
Watch: Cleancoders.com: videos 1 to 5 - Uncle Bob (Full Disclosure: his videos are light hearted and a bit odd at times, but worth their weight in gold.)
Read: Good naming is a process, not a single step - Arlo Belshee
Read: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler

Don't forget to try it yourself

start your terminal, clone the repo, navigate to the folder
run irb
load './character.rb'
c = Character.new
c.dmg(:magic, 20, 0, false, nil)
c.dmg(:shadow, 15, 6, true, nil)
exit
Refactor for readability!

Then move on to these

Talk Notes

Nothing to see, move along.

Intro

https://prezi.com/emgumynt_ewr/improving-code-through-readability/

Code Touch Points

magic values
expressive names
duplication
design through functions
comments
expressive conditionals
reducing complexity through removing conditionals
func args
touch back on naming and talk towards the 7 step process