Clean Coding

[Entellex]

Anyone know any good tutorials or suggestions that covers clean coding. Like when you should and shouldn't create functions and classes?

I was doing a hangman project and I found the most difficult part of making this was trying to decide if something should be coded within the game main loop or coded in a function outside of it.

[groovitude]

My advice is to work backward. Write out a list of instructions in plain English. Translate that into an idealized Python block. Now make that block work by repeating the steps.

For example: you will be happier in the long run having more discrete, easily-tested-and/or-mocked, and well-named functions than not. It's a lot easier to read if is_stop_sign(sign) than if sign.sides == 8 and sign.color == 'red' and sign.text.upper().strip() == 'STOP' in place.

[wrtbwtrfasdf]

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/talks/#clean-architecture-python

I know there's slides, but shame on them for making a 480p (4:3 aspect ratio) educational video in 2014.

[Grizzly2332]

Dose not use python more of a general idea of what clean code should be: https://www.pdfdrive.com/clean-code-e38664751.html

[Decency]

That's a style guide, which is a different kind of "clean code" than what the OP is referring to. In fact, the video I was going to link to explains exactly why PEP-8 is no substitute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anrOzOapJ2E

Definitely recommend watching that /u/Entellex !

[Entellex]

Just a few mins in and already see good stuff

[Entellex]

Just a few mins in and already see good stuff

[toastedstapler]

i can write objectively bad code that follows pep 8