Rules of coding

Question

what rules should I follow to become a good programmer?

Answer 1

the #1 advice i would give is : write clean code!

and #2: comment your code!

it will not only help others to read your code, but şt will help you too if you go back to your code agter years.

Answer 2

storm I can stress this enough. Make your code readable. If you write sloppy code without any comments or documentation it will be hard for other and yourself to read later on. It might seem weird, but if you go back to some code you wrote a little while ago it will take forever to figure out what is does and how it works.

Answer 3

sql_assassin You can't create code without bugs. It's virtually impossible to get it right the first time.