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Use of comments throughout a career
After hearing people at different points in their career share how they use comments, I've become interested in how prevalent these attitudes are and if different opinions are associated with different times in a person's career. I would love to learn what you use comments for!
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What best describes your current/recent use of comments?
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I comment to explain anything I am doing for the first time / am not confident of
I comment what each function does (ie. input, output, use)
I comment any ambiguous variable names or functionality in-line
I comment any segments of code I’ve stopped using
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If any of these have changed since you've started coding, please describe the change & what motivated it.
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When do you add comments?
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I write them as I am scoping my project and planning what functionality I will need
I write them as I create new functionality and experiment
I write them as I complete the program or program section
I write them when I am pairing with others or learning in-class/online as notes
I write them when someone else doesn’t understand a segment of my code
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If any of these have changed since you've started coding, please describe the change & what motivated it.
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Comments can help me remember what my code does
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Comments help me clarify my thinking
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Comments help me learn
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Comments can save current and future project developers time
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Writing isn’t something I’m good at generally
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Comments are helpful to an individual contributor building a project, but should be deleted before the project is shared
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Function-level comments are acceptable, but in-line comments are clutter
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Clear code is self-documenting & doesn’t need comments
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If any of these have changed since you've started coding, please describe the change & what motivated it.
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How long have you been programming?
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How long (if at all) professionally?
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Describe your path to programming in a sentence or two.
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Are you are interested in having results shared or are would be willing to be contacted w/ a few follow-up questions in six months?
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Yes, please share your results!
Yes, I will be part of your six-month follow-up!
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