Martin Fowler said it best, "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

As developers, we spend more time reading code than writing it, but all too often we try to be clever instead of direct. We optimize for performance instead of clarity. These practices can lead to code that is hard to understand for the next developer and even our future selves. If we cannot understand code, we can never hope to maintain it!

Through a series of examples, we'll learn techniques that can make our code more understandable and maintainable for our fellow humans. The code samples for this session are in C#, but the techniques can be applied to any object-oriented language.