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Ensure loops and conditionals are consistently formatted.

  • This will help students to understand the basics of each loop and conditional statement.
  • It will also help students avoid unnecessary refactoring of code later on.

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  • Programming Concepts
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“The ugliest beautiful line of code” (blog post) by Neil Brown

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