Oracle® PL/SQL® Interactive Workbook, Second Edition

Lab 2.1 Good Programming Practices

Lab Objectives After this Lab, you will be able to: ✓ Understand the Nature of Good Programming Practices ✓ Understand Formatting Guidelines

In the previous section of this chapter you encountered the terms computer program and programming language. You will recall that a program is a set of instructions, and a programming language is a tool that allows programmers to provide computers with these instructions. However, the process of creating a computer program is not as simple as just writing down instructions. Sometimes it can become a tedious and complicated task. Before a computer can be provided with these instructions, a programmer needs to know what instructions must be specified. In essence, the process ...