Clean Code and Clean Test course

• If you are interested in a training course, it is best to contact us so that we can clarify the technical topics.
• If you would like to take the training course with us, we will be happy to send you a non-binding offer.
• If the offer suits you, please accept it (a short confirmation by email is sufficient).
• If you need an order confirmation, we will be happy to send it to you.
• Afterwards, we will find a date that fits well for your team.
• For online training, we will provide you with the link: MS-Teams, BBBServer, or Zoom.
• A few days after the training, you will receive an invoice with a payment term of two weeks.
• Upon active participation in the training, participants will receive their certificates by email afterwards.

Of course, as a participant in a Clean Code and Unit Test course, you will receive a certificate. The prerequisite for this is full participation in all course units and programming tasks, and the successful programming of a small final project. However, after an intensive course, this will certainly bring you more joy than stress.

• Individual: We specifically address your needs and take into account your previous knowledge, desired topics, and focus areas.
• Developed by experts using the RAED teaching method®
• Compact, lively, and entertaining
• Structured and easy to understand
• A lot of practice: You can immediately apply the knowledge learned in the course.
• Theory optimized to the essentials
• Many examples and tasks, the difficulty of which increases linearly
• Small groups: max. 8 participants in the 3-day course; max. 15 participants in online coaching
• Highly qualified trainers with up to 30 years of experience in industry and teaching at German universities and colleges
• For on-site trainings, we provide modern laptops to the participants at no additional cost.

The good news is that you don't have to massively change your programming habits or enter a whole new world. Clean Code is comparable to moving from apartment A to apartment B:

• Step 1 in moving: you first prepare everything: Moving boxes, looking for moving companies, etc.
• Step 1 in software development: You set up the development environment and, if necessary, put together the team.

• Step 2 in moving: You pack everything into moving boxes and label them.
• Step 2 in software development: you start programming and write comments.

• Step 3 in moving: A moving company transports everything from apartment A to B.
• Step 3 in software development: You and your team successfully implement a feature, a system.

After step 3, the move is theoretically complete. We have arrived at apartment B and have our stuff there. We could leave all the moving boxes on the floor and get everything we need from the moving boxes, use it, and put it back in the moving boxes. Similarly, after step 3 in software development, our feature or system is also finished. We have programmed something that works and does what it is supposed to do.

However, when moving, we humans take a fourth and crucial step:

• Step 4 in moving: we clean up. We take all the stuff out of the moving boxes and distribute it into closets, shelves, etc. But why do we actually do this? The answer is amazingly simple. We want to have order and make room for new furniture.
• Step 4 in software development: Missing - This is where more than 80% of developers stop! The 4th step in software development should be clean code. Here we should clean up our code. In the moving example, step 4 (clean up) provides more space for new furniture. Similarly, step 4 (Clean Code) in software development makes room for new features. Our code will be easy to extend, easy to test, and of very high quality.
  

In other words, develop steps 1 through step 3 as before. However, you should learn step 4 in a practical way and integrate it immediately if you and your team want to produce above-average code every day. The good news is that any team can learn and immediately integrate Clean Code into their day-to-day work.

Why is the fourth step (Clean Code) missing in software development for over 80% of software developers?

We can even answer this question from our experience at elite universities and from our numerous trainings. Most developers don't even know how to do it. They have not learned the best practices for writing clean code. This is because such techniques are not taught in a practical way at university or college, nor in any computer science training. If at all, it is done through a lot of theory with little reference to practice. A second reason is that many developers have to meet one deadline after another and often have no time left for cleaning up. This saves time in the short term, but in the medium and long term it proves to be a strategic mistake as soon as problems arise. This is because 80% of the costs in software development arise later, for example when software errors and bugs are fixed or when the time-consuming and tedious adaptation of code and design for new features takes place.