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The Rules of Programming
How to Write Better Code

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Paperback, 343 pages
Published
United States, 30 December 2022

This philosophy-of-programming guide provides a unique take on how to think about programming. With a collection of two dozen pragmatic rules, each presented in a standalone chapter, this hands-on book is ideal for freshly minted programmers making the jump from small programming jobs to large-scale projects and long time frame work.

Author Chris Zimmerman, cofounder of the video game studio Sucker Punch Productions, teaches basic truths of programming by wrapping them in memorable aphorisms and driving them home with examples drawn from real code. This practical guide also helps managers who are searching for methods to train new members of their programming team.

The rules in this book include:

  • Simpler is always better
  • Let your code tell its own story
  • Localize complexity
  • Generalization takes three examples
  • Big projects need simple designs
  • Code that isn't running doesn't work
  • If something doesn't work, it's your fault
  • Work backwards from your result, not forward from your code
  • Some tools should be left in the toolbox
  • Not every problem lends itself to an elegant solution

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This philosophy-of-programming guide provides a unique take on how to think about programming. With a collection of two dozen pragmatic rules, each presented in a standalone chapter, this hands-on book is ideal for freshly minted programmers making the jump from small programming jobs to large-scale projects and long time frame work.

Author Chris Zimmerman, cofounder of the video game studio Sucker Punch Productions, teaches basic truths of programming by wrapping them in memorable aphorisms and driving them home with examples drawn from real code. This practical guide also helps managers who are searching for methods to train new members of their programming team.

The rules in this book include:

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Product Details
EAN
9781098133115
ISBN
1098133110
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Dimensions
22.6 x 15 x 2 centimeters (0.41 kg)

About the Author

Chris Zimmerman co-founded the video game studio Sucker Punch Productions in 1997 and led the coding team through twenty-plus years of successful video games, including three Sly Cooper games and five inFamous games, culminating in 2020's Game of the Year candidate Ghost of Tsushima. He split his time between designing and writing code, like the melee combat in Ghost, and the day-to-day work of building and managing a twenty-something person coding team. Prior to Sucker Punch, Chris spent roughly a decade at Microsoft, but the things he worked on there were much less interesting. He graduated from Princeton in 1988, and as a result owns more orange clothing than you do.

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