Code Complete, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14. Organizing Straight-Line Code

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Contents

• Statements That Must Be in a Specific Order

• Statements Whose Order Doesn't Matter

Related Topics

• General control topics: Chapter 19

• Code with conditionals: Chapter 15

• Code with loops: Chapter 16

• Scope of variables and objects: Scope

This chapter turns from a data-centered view of programming to a statement-centered view. It introduces the simplest kind of control flow: putting statements and blocks of statements in sequential order.

Although organizing straight-line code is a relatively simple task, some organizational subtleties influence code quality, correctness, readability, and maintainability.

Statements That Must Be in a Specific Order

The easiest sequential statements to order are those ...