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What characterises quality code?

We all want to write quality code for our projects, but what defines quality code to begin with?

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Beabkal "Bab" Eshete

Hi Rose,

You can find many books out there written on conventions and widely accepted methodologies. But for me it boils down to three important things:

  1. Documentation: a well documented code will reduce the time and effort you spend on understanding it.

  2. Modularity: a code constructed to be modular will be easy to debug and change a certain part of your code without altering the rest of your program.

  3. Maintainability: this includes the other two and may encompass other agreed upon conventions. Mainly, the whole point of writing a quality code is to make it maintainable for a longer time.

As I said, there are several methods and conventions out there. This is my personal view.