Never use magic numbers in your code: Do this instead

By rahmat hidayat

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Highlights: New puzzle, powerful readability tips, and the logical unity of code

Coding puzzle Can you solve this coding puzzle? Solve puzzle Featured content Coding as a logical unity of beauty and elegance Imagine a game of chess. Each piece, while powerful in its own right, finds its true potential when working in harmony with the others. Knights flank, pawns push, and rooks guard, united in their pursuit of checkmate. In the same way code exists not as a collection of isolated lines, but as a symphony of components, each playing its part in the grand composition of the program. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) embodies this principle of unity; by encapsulating data and functionality within objects, OOP creates self-contained units that interact and collaborate. Read more Never use magic numbers in your code: Do this instead Can you guess what this does? 👇 We have no idea what those numbers and variables mean in the bigger picture of the codebase. It's a mystery. It's magic to everyone apart from the developer who wrote the code. We can't possibly make any contributions to this code; we're stuck. But what if our dev had looked beyond code that merely works and also focused on communicating the full story of the code? At the very least they would have given those variables far more descriptive names to explain the context: Read more See more in blog

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