The Arf of Readable Code

• PART I: Surface-level improvements

  Naming, commenting, and aesthetics—simple tips that apply to every line of your codebase

  This chapter is organized into six specific topics:

  • Packing Information into Names

• PART II: Simplifying loops and logic

  Ways to refine the loops, logic, and variables in your program to make them easier to understand

• PART III: Reorganizing your code

  Higher-level ways to organize large blocks of code and attack problems at the function level

• PART IV: Selected topics

  Applying “easy to understand” to testing and to a larger data structure coding example