Des Dulianto
Sysadmin and hobbyist coder, lifelong learning
Beautiful Codes
@desdulianto
kongkow.club
What
Why
How
What
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Beautiful Codes
- has to be easy to maintain
- has to be easy on the eyes
... programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute .- SICP
Why
Codes
- is written (by people)
- is read (by people)
- is understood (by people)
- is modified (by people)
- has to be maintained by people!
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How
Do
- use proper tools (SCM is a must!)
- use meaningful name
- do one thing (and do it well)
- documentation
- formatting
- smart data structure dumb code
- test
- refactor
Don't
- code
- before think and design the solution
- repeat yourself (DRY)
- over (engineering|clever|doing things)
- hesitate to throw away code
- forget to have fun
- stop learning
Thank You
@KongkowITMedan
kongkow.club
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