Clean Code. Whew!

Paddy Healey about 1 hour later:

• • Congratulations getting this done Bob. I saw you give the Clean Code – Args talk at Agile 2006 and you were gathering feedback about whether there was a book in this subject. The result from the room seemed to be an overwhelming “yes!” and I’ve been eagerly awaiting the book ever since. The Table of Contents makes it look like this will be worth the wait. It will be on my shelf the day it comes out.

Philip Schwarz about 3 hours later:

• Any idea of when it will hit the shelves in the UK? When will it be pre-orderable on Amazon UK? Thanks. An impatient reader. Your previous book, ‘Agile Software Development – Principles, Patterns, and Practices’ is, in my humble opinion, one of the best development books (there are Kent Beck’s books as well) I have ever come across. Pure quality. It is a ‘must read’.

Stephen Seymour about 7 hours later:

• • Thank you very much, Dr. Martin. I feel indebted to you for writing “Agile Software Development” because it truly helped further my understanding of software development. I suppose I did the work on my end by reading it and digesting it, but your book has had a ripple effect of helping my entire family by putting me in a position to do well in our industry.

  • Thank you, sincerely, once again. I will certainly buy and read your new book. It’s an investment only the foolish wouldn’t make.

Dave Hoover 1 day later:

• • Great to hear that this book is coming soon! I am excited to read it and share it with my team.

flipdoubt 1 day later:

• • Looking forward to it.

  • One question that has been nagging me lately: I believe I grok the benefit of the SRP, but if all your classes are responsible for just one thing, won’t your software do just one thing? I don’t mean for that to sound overly simplistic. I’m more interested in learning where the best place is to bring all these single responsibilities together to deliver real value to the user.

http://www.grayger.com/wp/ 6 days later:

• • I am looking forward to the book, especially chapter “error handling” and “concurrency”. Any sample chapter available?

Pete 10 days later:

• • Look forward to reading the book and more blog posts!

  • I have three other books from the Robert C Martin series but none by the man himself. They’re all quite brilliant in their own ways. Working Effectively With Legacy Code, Agile Java and FIT for Software Development. I expect the quality of Clean Code to be similar.

  • Have you got plans for a paperback edition of Agile Software Development?

TonyB 15 days later:

• • Looks good. I have a copy of Agile Principles, Practices and Patterns in C#, which is one of the most readable and clear software books I’ve ever read. In fact it’s the only one I’ve ever finished. I appreciate many of these concepts are cross-language, but will the examples in the new book be oriented towards C#, Java or what?

Aaron 24 days later:

• • Looking forward!

  • When exactly would this book be published?

mBria about 1 month later:

• • Congrats…this is awesome news, I’ve been waiting with baited breath. If you’re looking for reviewers, I’d love to have the opportunity. Cheers! 

  • —MB 

  • (bria526 at gmail)

rev about 1 month later:

• • still got my ‘test first’ bracelet. when can we get this from amazon?

Philip Johnson 5 months later:

• • Here’s my review:

  • http://philipmjohnson.blogspot.com/2008/08/clean-code.html

Mike Finney 8 months later:

• • This is a fantastic book. As shared in my review of the Clean Code book, it’s a mind jarring, supportive, and thought provoking book!

Rolf 8 months later:

• • More people should understand how to write clean code. It will make all of our lifes a lot more pleasant. It’s on my christmas list :-)

Neil 8 months later:

• • I just bought this book and read it cover-to-cover. I have been looking for a book like this for Java since I read “Writing Solid Code” many years ago! Super-excellent book. Renforces the thinking I have been having for years reading crappy code. I have some comments/errata – Where can I send/post these?

waterproof digital about 1 year later:

• • Congrats…this is awesome news, I’ve been waiting with baited breath. If you’re looking for reviewers, I’d love to have the opportunity. Cheers!

David Mårtensson about 1 year later:

• • Hi.

  • I am reading the book right now and I found it very rewarding.

  • I have already started to use the principles despite not even being done with it.

  • But I have found what I consider a failed assumption on page 300.

  • FEET_PER_MILE is said to be such a well known constant not needing explanation.

  • Well, I live in Sweden where we use meter and kilometer, not feet and mile, I would never have guessed what 5280 stood for without explanation.

  • You should not make cultural assumptions like that as software development is a global business. :-)

  • But thanks for writing the book, it have made me a much better programmer so far in just over a week.

  • And seen some real improvement in the code I work with daily.

Daniel about 1 year later:

• • Hello, I put up an unofficial errata page for the book since there isn’t an official errata list:http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~wwalls/clean_code_errata/

  • Contributions welcome and will be attributed.

ClubPenguinCheats about 1 year later:

• • I saw you give the Clean Code – Args talk at Agile 2006 and you were gathering feedback about whether there was a book in this subject. The result from the room seemed to be an overwhelming “yes!” and I’ve been eagerly awaiting the book ever since. The Table of Contents makes it look like this will be worth the wait. It will be on my shelf the day it comes out