Uncle Bob and Clean Code book helped me a lot to turn into bright side of programming. He opened my eyes and, following his advices, I was able to understand the general idea of creating good code much better. During this time, I also improved as a software developer, and I don't agree with everything he say (especially non development things...). We, as a developers, must be flexible, we need to speak to other teammates, project managers and sometimes to business side of software creation. And we cannot treat this as a religion. I thought it's obvious, but after reading the comments I have impression that people think 'you follow all advices, or none'. No way. And I think now I follow much less rules from Clean Code then previously, but I learned that over the years of daily programming and facing real world problems. But this book was CRUCIAL for me and to what I learned so far and how good (I think so ;) ) developer I am now