If you're like me, and mainly program by epithet, then you must read
Clean Code by Robert C. Martin. Here are a few of his dicta.
- Smart programmers are not professional programmers ... clarity is king (p. 25)
- The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that. (p. 34)
- Communication is the professional developer's first order of business (p. 76)
- Serious thought needs to be put into the best way to represent the data that an object contains. The worst option os to blithely add getters and setters. (p. 95)