#6 in the ranking · technical · 2008
Clean Code
Clean Code, by Robert C. Martin, published in 2008, is cited by 367 people in conversations on Hacker News, TabNews and Stack Exchange. It shows up in 19 of the 20 years, from 2008 to 2026, with the most mentions in 2023. People who cite it also cite The Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete and Clean Architecture.
Year by year
Peak: 63 mentions in 2023
Mentions per year: 2007: 0; 2008: 2; 2009: 5; 2010: 12; 2011: 14; 2012: 14; 2013: 10; 2014: 10; 2015: 10; 2016: 14; 2017: 26; 2018: 30; 2019: 28; 2020: 14; 2021: 42; 2022: 55; 2023: 63; 2024: 40; 2025: 22; 2026: 4.
Where it’s cited
What people write
From a text search; it doesn’t yet tell recommending apart from just mentioning.
It's probably useful to un-read Clean Code, though I don't really have a recommendation for a good replacement.
Hacker News · 2024 · in “Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?” · see comment ↗
My recommendations: "Code" by Charles Petzold,"Don't make me think" by Steve Krug, Working Effectivelly with Legacy Code, by Robert Feathers, Clean Code by uncle Bob,..
Hacker News · 2019 · in “Ask HN: Best book to gift someone for getting into software engineering?” · see comment ↗
Some great books are Clean Code, Pragmatic Programmer, Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Hacker News · 2018 · in “Ask HN: Books/courses for self-taught programmer” · see comment ↗
It's not a meta book like Clean code or The Pragmatic Programmer (both of which are great books).
Stack Exchange · 2013 · in “Are 'The Pragmatic Programmer' and 'The Mythical Man Month' good books for people with limited practical experience programming” · by Christian Bongiorno · CC BY-SA 3.0 · see comment ↗
"Clean Code" mentioned above is one of the best books I've ever read on programming.
Stack Exchange · 2011 · in “Best books on the theory and practice of software architecture?” · by NisLSimonsen · CC BY-SA 2.5 · see comment ↗
The general suggestion is to write very clean code so the JVM has the best possible conditions to compile it into machine code and know the various runtime implementations to choose the most appropriate at hand.
Stack Exchange · 2012 · in “what is best book to learn optimized programming in java” · by user1249 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · see comment ↗
Vejo alguns livros que são bem recomendados no mundo da programação, como o clean code por exemplo, só que sempre eu fico na dúvida se vale a pena ter e estudar pelo livro fisico ou estudar somente por vias digitais, como Kindle…
TabNews · 2023 · in “[DÚVIDA] Estudar programação por livros” · see comment ↗
Mas para aprender a desenvolver software em nível profissional (independente da linguagem), eu recomendo dois livros: Clean Code, do Robert Martin; e Design Patterns, do famoso "Gang of Four".
TabNews · 2023 · in “Ainda vale apena comprar livros de programação?” · see comment ↗
Em questão da recomendação, depende da área, eu posso te recoemndar livros de front end ex.: HTML e CSS do jon duckett / JavaScript e jQuery do jon duckett / Codigo limpo a edição revisada / The Road To React do Robin Wieruch…
TabNews · 2023 · in “Livros.” · see comment ↗