Style Matters

CS1

The goal of this assignment is to convince students that good stylistic choices in programming matters. No matter how many times you tell them this, they won't believe you until they deal with poorly written code.

Give students a piece of poorly indented/commented code, ask them to figure out what it does, and then rewrite it with proper style and good comments. Afterwards, ask them to reflect upon the difficulties created by the poor style. This is best done as a discussion after the assignment is turned in.

Arup Guha

Writing Code

One Week

Writing

Basic Programming Skills

You are asked to clean up someone else's code.

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