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Sarabjit Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 10: Coding Standards

Unit 10: Coding Standards Notes

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
10.1 Common Errors
10.1.1 Synchronization Errors
10.1.2 Enumerated Data Types
10.1.3 String Handling Errors
10.2 Structured Programming
10.2.1 Algorithms
10.2.2 Understanding the Algorithm
10.2.3 Top-Down Design Approach (Modularization)
10.3 Programming Practices
10.3.1 Coding Standards and Code Reviews
10.3.2 Coding Techniques
10.4 Summary
10.5 Keywords
10.6 Review Questions

10.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

• Explain the common errors
• Describe the structured programming
• Define programming practices

Introduction

Programmers use far more time reading code than writing code. Over the life of the code, the
spends a considerable time reading it throughout debugging and enhancement. People spend
considerable attempt in reading code because the code is often maintained by someone. In
short, it is of prime importance to write code in a manner that it is easy to read and understand.
Coding standards provide method and guidelines for some aspects of programming in order to
make code easier to read. Most organizations that develop software regularly develop their own
standards. In general, coding standards provide guidelines for programmers regarding naming,
file organization, statements and declarations, and layout and comments. To give an idea of
coding standards (often called conventions or style guidelines), we discuss some guidelines for
Java, based on publicly available standards.
Naming Conventions

• Names of variables in mixed case, beginning with lowercase.

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