What Have You Learned?

You’ve made it! This is the end of this book. We’re happy that you’ve taken this journey with us, and we hope you’ll remember: the journey’s the reward. You’ve learned so much along the way.

We covered 70 examples, including code style, comments, naming, exceptions, testing, object-oriented design, and functional programming to sharpen your understanding of high-quality code.

Now, you’re able to

  • Spot problematic Java code quickly and know how to improve it.
  • Recognize common types of bugs and know how to avoid them.
  • Explain why one code is clean and another isn’t.

And not just that… In this last chapter, you learned the basic idea for a lot of best practices in real software development. It’s about going all the way to production ...

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