The New Grad Software Engineer's Code Quality Blueprint
Ready to excel as a new engineer?Avoid these 5 mistakes that lead to looking to like a novice, wasting countless hours, and staying stuck at junior level (Even if you’ve read every “clean code” book)
Up your code quality
Learn how to make your code read like EnglishWrite logic and controls flows that just make senseHow to write crystal clear pull requests that get approved fastDiscover how to organize your code like a proWhy code comments aren’t actually your friend
Everything you need to breeze through code review, impress your teammates, and perform above your level.
Written by Alexis Acosta 3x FAANG intern and current software engineer at FAANG, in collaboration with the Taro team.
Learn to write quality code in 5 days
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Here's everything that's inside:
Day 1: Being lazy with naming-and why this leads to confusion from your teammates as well as future-you.Day 2: Adding too many layers of nesting-and why this leads to code that is a nightmare to read.Day 3: Doing way too much in one pull request-and why this leads to angry teammates who have to spend tons of time reviewing your changes.Day 4: Throwing tons of code into one large monolith-and why this leads to slow build times and low developer productivity.Day 5: Excessively commenting your code-and why this often leads to writing bad code.
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P.S. If you don't find the email in your inbox in the next couple of minutes, please check your spam folder...Chances are it ended up there.(Since I'm relatively new to sending emails to my list, sometimes the email algorithms think I'm a robot! 🤷🏻)