The document outlines an approach for becoming a "Clean Code Developer" through incremental improvement. It discusses learning from martial arts with concepts like kyu/dan grades and continuous practice. The grades progress from red, focusing on basic principles like DRY and KISS, to higher levels incorporating more practices like continuous integration and deployment. The overall message is to think big but start small by finding one small thing to improve and avoiding giving up through reflection and reminder.

2. Agenda
•What we can learn from martial arts
•Idea of “Clean Code Developer”
•Practices & Principles
•Grade overview
•“Black Grade”
•“Red Grade”

3. Kata
Randori
Kyu/Dan
Values

4. Who stops has already lost
•Find something (small) you want to improve
•Remind yourself
•Dont give up

5. Clean Code Developer
•Evolvable
•Correctness
•Efficiency
•Continous Improvement
•Principles
•Practices

6. Grades
•black → commitment to improve
•red → basic principles and practices
•orange → automate things
•yellow → continous testing
•green → continous integration
•blue → continous deployment
•white → all of the above & restart with red

7. 1st grade (red): Principles
•Don´t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
•Keep it simple, stupid (KISS)
•Be careful with optimizations
•Favour Composition over Inheritance (FCoI)

8. 1st grade (red): Practices
•Boy Scout rule
•Root Cause Analysis
•Use a version control system
•Start with simple refactoring
•Reflect on a daily basis

9. Summary
•Improve yourself
•Think big, start small
•Don’t do 100%
•Just increase by 20%

10. Some References
•Clean Code (Book)
•Clean Code Developer Site
• CCD 1st (red) grade
•CCD App (Windows Store)
•CodeWars