Year 11 Computer Science ATAR: Good coding practice and internal documentation
Students learn naming conventions, comments, docstrings, header comments and stubs, and how these make code more readable and maintainable.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Modular Programming journey. All 13 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (13)
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Purposes of naming conventions
2
Camel casing
3
Snake casing
4
Hungarian notation for variables
5
Applying a naming convention to code structures
6
Comments
7
Purposes of internal documentation: code maintenance
8
Comments that explain and justify data and code structures
9
Docstrings for functions and classes
10
Header comments for code maintenance
11
Stubs: placeholder code and comments for future development
12
Readability improvements in code
13
Maintainability improvements in code
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