Top 5 Things to Learn to Write Good Code
Writing code is easy, but writing quality code is difficult. There are many things to learn in terms of design concepts, patterns, and more. Here, we’ve created a list of 5 important things which will help any programmer learn how to improve their code quality. Properly Naming Variables and Functions When variables and functions are given good names, a developer can come to the codebase for the first time and understand exactly what each one does. Giving good names may sound easy, but often codebases will include many poorly named variables and functions, making it difficult to work with that codebase. Names should be brief but should be descriptive enough to indicate what they are for. This page on Writing Elegant Names for Variables and Functions breaks this down in much more detail. Effectively Debugging No matter how disciplined your approach to coding, defects will arise. An effective approach to analyzing and determining its root cause will save hours or days of