Lecture 4: Code View

General principles of good code:

• Don’t Repeat Yourself**(DRY)**
• Comments Where Needed
  
  • wirte specification
  • specifies the provenance or source of a piece of code that was copied or adapted from elsewhere.
• Avoid Magic Numbers
• One Purpose For Each Variable
• Use Good Names
• Use Whitespace to Help the Reader
• Don’t Use Global Variables
• Methods Should Return Results, not Print Them

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Reference

[1] 6.005 — Software Construction on MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW 6.005 Homepage at https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/6/6.005/s16/