Learning to Program

9. Programming Standards

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Up to this point, the chapters have been technical in nature. You have learned a lot of the nuts and bolts of programming, and you have looked at and written a lot of code. But there is more to programming than the nuts and bolts. You learned a lot about the tools you need to write computer programs. In this chapter, you begin to learn the rules of writing computer programs, what makes really good code, and how to write code that you can be proud of.

“But wait,” you think, “I don’t care about the rules. As long as my program works, I’m happy.” If all you want to do is write little programs that help you do some small aspect of your job better, ...