Book reading: The art of readable code

May 19, 2017

Introduction

As a hackerrank contest player, Julia likes to do some research on how to improve her performance. She was surprised that she could not figure out easy algorithm on Hackerrank last year, and then she posted questions on codereview.stackexchange.com, and then she quickly followed the advice. She felt more confident on easy algorithm on hackerrank contest. Here is one of questions she asked on a easy algorithm called Spiral Message.

For medium level algorithm, Julia stumbled badly on Rookie3 maximum score algorithm. She tried to look up the lead board and then tried to find out a good solution to work on her skills, and then she figured out that it is better to work on the basics. She remembered that she read a book to teach how to set up a good test case, and she likes to enhance her skills to use test case for the algorithm analysis.

The book is called "The art of readable code", chapter 14: testing and readability.