May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 35m
English
Code can be easily understood when written using the programming language's coding style and convention while avoiding the bad code pitfalls discussed earlier. However, source code documentation is very valuable and its importance in software projects cannot be overemphasized. Brief and meaningful documentation of classes and methods can give developers a quick insight into their internal structures and operations.
Understanding a complex or poorly written class becomes a nightmare when there is no proper documentation in place. When the original programmer that wrote the code is no longer around to provide clarifications, valuable productive time can be lost trying to understand how the class or method is implemented. ...