Writing Better Code

Programming is an essential tool for innovation in the digital age, with businesses and organizations across all industries relying on code to solve complex problems and drive growth. As data volume and complexity continue to increase, writing high-quality code has become crucial for anyone working with technology. Writing better code goes beyond simply mastering a programming language; it’s about understanding best practices, design patterns, and optimization techniques for building modular, efficient, scalable, readable, and maintainable software.

Throughout this series, we’ll explore the technical aspects of writing better code, covering topics such as syntactic artifacts for legibility improvement, data structures, algorithms, software architecture, and debugging techniques. We’ll delve into popular programming languages like Python, R, Java, and C++, as well as emerging languages like Rust, Julia, and Elixir. We’ll provide practical examples and tips to help us write cleaner, more concise, and more robust code that’s easier to maintain and more performant.

Whether we’re beginners or experienced developers, this series will equip us with the technical knowledge and skills to write better code. By the end of this series, we’ll be able to produce cleaner, smarter, more efficient, maintainable, scalable, and elegant code.

Get Started

Writing code can be as simple as importing the required libraries, declaring our variables, functions, and classes as required,…
We could spend our entire developer’s life using just the basic concepts of any programming language we choose to…
Higher-order functions take other functions as arguments and/or return other functions as a result. These powerful abstractions allow us…
Sentiment analysis is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique which consists of identifying the emotional tone behind a body…
In the first part of this 3-article series, we introduced the concepts of columnar file formats & row-based file formats. We also…

All content on this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Request Full Resume