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Discussion on: Excerpts from ‘The Clean Coder'

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Martin Häusler

All three of "Uncle Bob" Martin's books (Code, Coder & Architecture) are absolute must reads. Some of his talks you can find on YouTube are pretty good as well. I consider him to be among the best software engineers on this planet. Aside from his strange fetish for test-driven development (I personally strongly disagree with the "test first" principle), he is very pragmatic in his decisions.

However, as with all advice which is as general as the content of Martin's books and talks, do take it with a grain of salt, in particular when it comes to details. Perspectives, situations and people differ. His general overarching message that we should all try to become better engineers through discipline, expanding knowledge and asserting quality is the best advice I can imagine.