Lay out what good programming style consists of for your class to encourage good style and make debugging easier.
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- Explain why good style is important to your students. For instance, good style:
- ensures there is no confusion when grading assignments.
- improves readability of code, so it will save them a lot of time in the long run
- prevents bugs and makes it easier to debug.
- It is not just meant to make the code look nice.
- Good style practices include:
- Proper Indentation and position of curly braces
- Descriptive names for classes, methods and variables
- Initializing variables and using named constants
- Structured commenting.
- Strategic use of white space.
- Breaking up code into smaller, logical chunks.
- Students should be coding with good style throughout the programming process, not simply implementing good style after the fact.