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What to Keep in Mind When Writing Code

Writing the Right Code to Make Trainers More Effective at Your Work

By Robert CordrayPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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If you want to write code correctly and in a way that is effective to everyone in a company or for your team, you will need to make sure that everyone can understand every part of the code that you write fully and deeply. To ensure that everyone can understand the code you write, you will need to write comments in every line of code.

Characteristics of Good Code And How You Can Write Good Code

If you can do this, this means that a beginner, who does not know anything about computer programming, will still be able to understand what you are trying to do, and how it will help the person who is reading the code. Writing comments for every line of code that you write will also help ensure that you are not redundant, and that instead every line of code has a distinct purpose to it. If you write good code, the code should be able to run without producing bugs, and it should also be able to apply to a wide variety of examples of problems that the company may need to solve. If you are writing a robust piece of code, you should also be able to understand every line of the code, as well as what it means. If you are not sure of one or more of the lines of code that you have written, this means that you should go back and revise your code so that you can understand the code that you would like to submit to the company. If everyone can make sense of the code that you have written, this is a good thing as it represents a sample of code that you have used to help automate a process or task within the company.

How To Ensure Your Code Is As Correct As It Possibly Can Be Using If Statements And Loops

If you want to teach someone else how to write code in the most effective way possible, you should tell them to write code that is simple and easy to understand, but that also uses a little bit of variety, such as by adding loops, as well as if statements as necessary. The if statements in a paragraph of code allows you to add conditions to a group of lines in a set of code, while loops will enable you to have the system run over and over again as needed. If you are writing a set of code, using if statements are helpful if you need to complete different steps of a task that are based on the results of the first step of that task; on the other hand, writing a set of code using loops is beneficial to accurately complete a set of hundreds or thousands of functions over and over again. Otherwise, you will waste a lot of time trying to do this manually if you do not write code for this process.

How To Effectively Use Code To Prove That You Are An Asset To The Company

Through test driven development, writing code is easy to implement and can help a company improve its profits by tens of thousands of dollars every month. Writing code to complete a task or a series of related jobs will save the organization time and money compared to if you told the employees what to do every time they have to do a task, even one that is very similar to another job that they have done before. If you can write accurate code consistently and accurately for a company, then you will be a powerful asset to the company and are likely to get a promotion to a more managerial role, compared to an administrative role. This promotion is essential later on in your career, as it will determine how much you ultimately get paid throughout your life.

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