True developer is one who can understand the others Code

One of the typical task for a developer is to understand the code written by some other developer. Up to now I have mostly worked on fresh development and I have got a chance to work on fresh development. I design my module and then implement those modules. Mostly times I takes the help from google (my fav. Website) and read the code written by others and then with the help of that I implement my modules.

This time I get a chance to make some changes in the code written by some other developer. At the starting I was thinking that it’s an easy task but when I start reading the code I feel that other experienced people says right. It’s easy to write your own code as compare to understand the code written by other. Ultimately I have completed my task with in the time. And al last I have realize that true developer is one who can understand the others code. There are some basic rule one has to follow before writing the code. We all know these rules very well but mostly time we neglect them. I am writing some basic rules one has to keep in mind before start coding.

1. First all we must study about the programming standard of the language which we are going to use.
2. Give a more appropriate name to the class and specially to the function as mostly time we are not having a constraint on the length of function name.
3. Give a more appropriate name to variable. Create the variable whenever we have need. Creating too much variable without proper need is not a good practice.
4. Use the same programming standard through out the program.
5. At last always use the proper comments it save hours of time when someone or even your self read the code after sometime.

At last I wants to say try to become true developer. You must be capable enough to read and understand the code written by other developer.