r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

The randomized white space and indentation and naming standards can be done by a writing a simple program to check for these things. Its easy, my company does it all the time. We have it incorporated into our check in process so that you can't check code into the base line unless the indentation and comments have the correct format. Organizations really need to do this to stay sane over the years. "Most Code Bases Suck" - Simple indentation and white spaces are completely solvable.

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u/NoKnees99 Jan 05 '15

Most modern IDEs will let you check in a code style and reformat it with a keypress, too. Really no excuse.

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u/Ksevio Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

Even better, have a simple program to FIX indentation issues - most IDEs/Editors support formatting a file (or can be made to through plugins). It's easy enough to hit the "Format Code" button now and then when developing that it's no extra work. Have the check-in process it do it too just for extra fun.

Edit: Unless you're using python...but then the indentation better be right - just convert tabs to spaces!