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Re: Programming Organization

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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
Document the code well. Maintain change logs.
Both are excellent ideas, and will save you a ton of grief when things don't work right.

I personally document every line of code, and usually my code has more comments than code. Comments should be sufficient for anyone moderately familiar with code to understand completetly and fully what a line is supposed to be doing.

Cange logs are harder to enforce, but literally writing down every change (was Foo == bar, changed to foo==bar, DAR 11/23/05) with who did it and when can be extraordinarily useful when something that was working suddenly stops. Reviewing it later is also an excellent learning tool, you see how things evolved and learn ways to get there sooner next time. (Note that some CV systems do this for you)

This is how professional programmers are supposed to do it. Sadly, it's not always the case, but projects that do are often more successful. Learn it the right way, the discipline will serve you well for a lifetime.

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