4 Ways to Format Your Code as a Developer to Make Your Code More Readable
Do you have formatting rules you follow as a developer?
They may seem unnecessary on the surface, but they will help your project look clean and readable.
Here are some tips for formatting your code effectively as described by Robert C. Martin:
1. Structure your code like a newspaper article
An article contains high-level detail in the introduction, with more specific information later on in the article.
The same goes for your code. For a class, your public functions should be high level at the top of your file and it should call other private functions which will do more detailed work lower down the page.
Formatting your code to read easily from top to bottom, makes your code readable.
2. Vertical formatting
Your files should not be thousands of lines long.
Let’s go back to the newspaper example. Do you want to read a newspaper article that is thousands of lines long?
No. you want the article to get to the point. The same goes for your code.
If your class is too long, it is doing too much and needs to be split into…
