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I would recommend learning the SOLID [1] design principles. I've found them to be a very helpful guide when designing software components.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID




Particularly the S — the Single Responsibility Principal. So much messy, convoluted code is convoluted because it lacks a singular, clear purpose, and bundles up multiple responsibilities into one section of code, be that a module, class, or whatever is appropriate to your language.

They're all good, and you'll get good insight from them all, but I think that first one is more important and has provided me more value than all the rest. I think Liskov substitutability would be my second pick.


Agree completely.




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