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Code Complete, Second Edition - Chapter 7

Today I will be talking about a chapter of a book I was reading during our reading weeks for my English course. The book was really long, and the chapters were decently sizeable as well, so I had to narrow my reading area down to one chapter.   The book itself is essentially a guidebook for writing clearer and better code. Different chapters touch on different topics, but chapter 7 was about creating high quality routines. Routines in coding are essentially functions that you call to use to do tedious stuff, for example to calculate taxes and give you the tax values instantaneously.   The whole book was interesting to me since it had some amazing advice to help me with my coding journey that I started during my studies here at the University of Oulu. I am still figuring things out, but it felt like the right time to read a chapter like this. I felt like I learned some essential things about coding.   Some profound things that I found include the writing of p...