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How to go from writing code that works to writing efficient, clean code and following good practices?
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This is a very good comment for me because I usually hate tutorial videos with a passion. It's better with transcripts now, but it's still harder to CTRL+F a video for what I want. And like most human beings, I read faster than people talk in videos. I definitely have already been convinced as to how unsuitable videos are for me personally. I am glad they exist for people who can learn better that way, knowledge transmission is knowledge transmission, it's good that the creators made them to help people learn! But I'll spend an hour searching for articles and failing to find any before I give in and turn to the video that was the first result.
Do you have any book recommendations?
I think The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas is a great book everyone should read every couple of years. It's not really a lot of "low level coding tips" - more like overall paradigms
I myself don't have any. Most of the books I studied with were in German. But I saw plenty in the library. And it depends on what you want. There are some on specific programming languages, or design patterns, or concepts like object oriented programming ....