VCE Software Development U4O1: Clear code and internal documentation
Students learn naming conventions, concise and readable code, refactoring, and comments, docstrings and stubs for maintainable solutions.
One content description from the full VCE Software Development - U4O1 - development and evaluation journey. All 17 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (17)
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Readability improvements in code
2
Purposes of naming conventions
3
Snake casing
4
Camel casing
5
Hungarian notation for variables
6
Hungarian notation for interface controls
7
Applying a naming convention to code structures
8
Built-in functions sum(), min() and max()
9
List comprehensions
10
Refactoring code to improve it
11
Maintainability improvements in code
12
Comments
13
Purposes of internal documentation: code maintenance
14
Header comments for code maintenance
15
Comments that explain and justify data and code structures
16
Docstrings for functions and classes
17
Stubs: placeholder code and comments for future development
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