What makes good code good and bad code bad? We all kind of know what we mean by bad code, code that is unpleasant to work on and difficult to change, but what is it that makes code bad in this sense?

In this episode Dave Farley, author of best selling books "Continuous Delivery" and "Modern Software Engineering", explores the idea of bad code and gives his definition of what makes code bad and what makes good code good he also gives some realworld examples of demonstrating some of, what he sees as, the hallmarks of good code.



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LINKS:

"Bad Code Example?" ▶ https://wiki.c2.com/?BadCode

"14 Tips on How to write Bad Code" ▶ https://dev.to/pragyanatvade/14tips...

"Bad Code An Illustrated Description" ▶   / whatisgoodbadcodeanillustratedexamp...  

"What is Bad Code? How to Write Clean Code?" ▶   / whatbadcodehowwritecleansultanmahamud  


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