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Re: Bad Programming Practices

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Originally Posted by wdell View Post
...you're writing them for high school students who may or may not have a knowledgeable mentor to guide them in the future. Your code and comments should be clear as day so that someone just starting out can tell what you were doing and why.
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Originally Posted by omalleyj View Post
To them its just hieroglyphics. With every new batch of programmers you need to go over the basics.
If you had to explain what the compiler is doing additionally to what your program logic is doing, there would be way too many comments - pages and pages and pages of comments. Ctrl+T http://google.com is your friend.
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