The Mind of a Programmer. How to Understand and Grasp Any Code

The book highlights the practical foundations of cognitive science for programmers. Key topics include: understanding and developing others' and one's own code, learning new programming languages, mnemonic techniques for programmers, and keeping code in a readable state. It explains how to reduce cognitive load when working as a programmer, how to make code logical and understandable for oneself and colleagues. Techniques for naming functions, classes, and variables, approaches to managing repositories, collaborative development, and refining code are discussed.