Summary

The best behavior you, as a developer, can adopt is consistently following a good, solid core of coding practices. Even though it may take you a little longer upfront during your development process to apply comments, declare variables, follow naming guidelines, and test for variables, doing so will invariably save you time in the long-run. Not only will your code be clean, tight, and easy to follow, but you'll be setting the stage for future developers to modify your code once you've moved on. Following the guidelines in this chapter will help ensure that the code you create resembles that of a seasoned developer-it will be slick, documented, and practically bug-free.