5 Best Practices for Commenting Your Code Posted on June 27, 2011 by johnfx One of the first things you learn to do incorrectly as a programmer is commenting your code. My experience with student and recently graduated programmers tells me that college is a really good place to learn reall...
Best Practices for C# Commenting Below are some of the best practices for writing comments in C#: Only use comments for code snippets that are hard to understand or need clarification. Keep comments simple: remember their purpose. They should precisely describe what a portion of code does. Don...
Source code is read and executed by a computer. Code comments, on the other hand, are best reserved for explaining the code's intent rather than what it does. The code should be written to a standard where someone can read the lines directly and understand what will happen in execution...
Good Commenting Practices First of all, commenting is not an excuse to write unreadable code, and then just patch it up with five paragraphs of comments explaining it. We first have to focus on writing clean, self-explanatory code, which can later be improved with constructive comments. Use c...
Code quality is one of the most crucial aspects of software development. Learn best practices for C# code quality.
There are a number of best practices that should be followed when writing comments to ensure reliability and quality. Below are some tips for writing high-quality comments in Python. 1. Avoid the Obvious Comments that state the obvious don’t add any value to your code, and should be avoide...
Formatting Naming Commenting Code XML Documentation Labels and text Database Exceptions General Best Practice GuidanceThe following list provides general best practices guidance.Favor using positive logic. Use constants instead of numeric literals. Use enumerations in place of constants. Use ...
Python Code Comments Best Practices Comment at the same indentation as the code you’re referring to. This makes it easier to see what you’re referring to. Update your comments when you update your code. Incorrect comments are worse than no comments. ...
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We’ll discuss some of the different kinds of comments that you will run across, their uses, and best practices (or maybe just good habits to get into) when using them yourself. The basics tenets of commenting your code are simple: ...