I used to journal on a regular basis, but the habit has been somewhat lost over the past few years. One of the things that I did regularly was to write a few goals and fears to see how they changed over the years.
Okay, regularly isn’t fair because I think I did it all of twice. But I like to have a place that I can write down some ideas about things that I want to remember.
To that end, my goals for writing code as of today:
- Think before you do something
- Comment everything that is being worked on, regardless of the status
- Break up sections of code into smaller functions
The goal of all three of these is to be more efficient, but #2 looks like more work than needs to be done. But I found some old code last night that I had documented completely. It was kind of neat because there were descriptions of how things worked and what didn’t work. And this is something that was written years ago.
Anyway, just some ideas. Let’s see how well they work.