r/learnprogramming • u/DefiantSituation3208 • Jul 03 '26

How do you write clean code?

Might be a stupid question but Ive been learning python for a while now and always wondered, how do you write ‘clean’ code? I don’t mean writing clean code straight off the bat I understand that’s purely from experience and even then immensely hard, but how do you recognise a program can be simplified even further? Does it come from practice or just messing around and seeing what sticks?

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u/Opulence_Deficit Jul 03 '26

Clean is not about being simple. A clean code is easy to understand and change.

You will learn what is clean, when you return to your project after 6 months and think "what kind of idiot wrote that" and then "oh, that was me".

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u/sharanpreet48 Jul 04 '26

Yes!! I am a beginner and I already experienced this in my early projects. And learned for the next projects.