Good Code: Part Five of Five – Maintainable Code

Roger Smith Hints and Tips, Programming, Software extensibility, flexibility, Good code, maintainable, modularity, self-documenting 0 Comments

Welcome back to our five week series, where we explore five aspects of code that should really be fundamental to code being described as “good”. This week we bring you the lucky last in the series, part five. So far we have covered Correctness, Understandability, Efficiency, and Testability.

Much of the series is built upon Sara Falamaki’s talk, entitled “Happy Hackers == Happy Code”, which Eric attended at Linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington. More →

January 23, 2013

Good Code: Part Two of Five – Understandable Code

Roger Smith Hints and Tips, Programming, Software consistency, Good code, indenting, Programming, Understandability, variable name 1 Comment

Welcome back to our five week series, where we explore five aspects of code that should really be fundamental to code being described as “good”. This week we bring you part two. If you missed the first blog of the series, you can catch it here: http://blog.gravitycomputing.co.nz/?p=638

Much of the series is built upon Sara Falamaki’s talk, entitled “Happy Hackers == Happy Code”, which Eric attended at Linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington.