13 Clarity and Maintainability CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVE • Writing Clear and Maintainable
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Chapter 13: Clarity and Maintainability
CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVE
Write Clear and Maintainable Code
Now that you’ve made your code readable, does your easy-to-read code actually make sense? Can it be easily maintained? These are huge issues for the exam, worth a very significant chunk of your assessment score. We’ll look at everything from class design to error handling. Remember that you’re a Team Player. Some key areas of code clarity are covered in more detail in the Documentation chapter, so we won’t discuss them here. Those areas include the importance of meaningful comments and self-documenting identifiers. The...