Development Best Practices
... people who always insist on following “best practices” without understanding why ... [are] bad programmers. — Yi-Jirr Chen, Content Marketing & Operations @ Codementor
Applies Clean Code practices.
Knows and follows up best practices and guidelines.
Knows about design patterns.
Cares about code reusability.
Does good variable naming.
Thinks before coding.
Analyzes design decisions based on facts and avoids hype driven development.
Understands and applies the client standards and best practices.
Has an automation-first mentality. Uses automation to increase their productivity.
Naming
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton
Why is naming important?
Code should be readable to computers and other engineers. Giving meaningful names to methods, variables, classes, and improves readability
Tips for Better Naming
Follow the conventions of the language or framework you are using. For example, Python prefers
snake_caseand JavaScriptcamelCase.Ask your team if there are any naming conventions you should follow to keep consistency.
If a method returns a boolean or your variable is a boolean, try to start its name with
is.If a variable represents an array or a list, use a plural name.
Avoid generic names such as
data,object, etc.
Architecture
Creates clear architecture diagrams (UML).
Knows basic architecture and security concepts.
Refactoring
Knows how and when to do refactors.
Maintainability
Cares about the future developers.
Thinks about code maintainability. Writes code that is easy to test, to change, and to understand a year after.
Writes clean reusable code. Assumes someone else is going to use it.
Related Traits
References
🎬 ITT 2016 - Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney
🎬 WtD 2017 - Even Naming This Talk Is Hard by Ruthie BenDor
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