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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by rbits@lemm.ee to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Comment from my group project teammate. You don't need to comment every line lol

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! Write your code to be as clear and self-descriptive as possible, and then add a comment if something is still not immediately obvious.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

If I see comments explaining every other line, especially describing “what” instead of “why”, I assume the code was written by a recent grad and is going to be bad. Describing what you are doing looks like you are doing a homework assignment.

Like on that line, obviously we’re initializing a variable, but why 1 instead of 0? Could be relevant to a loop somewhere else, but I guess I’ll have to figure that out by reading the code anyways.