Dojo: What is good code? Evaluating code quality

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OVERVIEW

Fancy having a good time hacking & discussing software altogether? As part of his journey “visiting communities, sharing good vibes and crafting software”, visiting software crafter Daniel Carral will run a dojo on code quality. Important: as usual for coding dojos, it would be great if you come with a development environment already setup in your laptop.

AGENDA

(Intro) Introduction to the topic: what is “good code”?

(Craft) Solve a simple algorithmic problem.

(Show) Discuss some of the different approaches we came up with.

(Evalute) Evaluation based on opinion vs facts: introduction to static code analysis and software metrics.

(Discuss) Take a look at more potential solutions, what do the numbers say? Final remarks / discussion.

Note: Provided initial test suite is available, in, at least, the following programming languages: C, Clojure, Coffeescript, Lisp, C++, C#, JavaScript, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, Kotlin, Lua, Objetive-C, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, Typescript.