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Programmer's Mind. How to understand and make sense of any code

Programmer's Mind. How to understand and make sense of any code
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Author: Felin Hermane
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 259

The book covers the practical basics of cognitive science for programmers. Main topics: making sense of and developing other people's and your own code, learning new programming languages, mnemonic techniques for programmers, keeping code readable. Explained how to reduce cognitive load when working as a programmer, how to make code logical and understandable for yourself and your colleagues. Examines techniques for naming functions, classes and variables, approaches to maintaining repositories, collaborative code development and revision.