Summary

We now have a first idea of what clean code is, and a workable interpretation of it, which will serve us as a reference point for the rest of this book.

More importantly, we understood that clean code is something much more important than the structure and layout of the code. We have to focus on how the ideas are represented on the code to see if they are correct. Clean code is about readability, maintainability of the code, keeping technical debt to the minimum, and effectively communicating our ideas into the code so that others can understand the same thing we intended to write in the first place.

However, we discussed that the adherence to coding styles or guidelines is important for multiple reasons. We have agreed that this ...

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