Some Basic Principles on How to Best Avoid Bugs

Are My Programming Habits Bad? 

How do I  know?  Well, the answer is always YES, even if you respond NO, “None is perfect”, But we all can  improve. How?

1. Proper Understanding of Algorithms

 Believe it or not, proper mastery of algorithms, their patterns and the method of implementing them is a skill every good programmer should have.

2. Proper Mastery of the Programming Language’s Grammar

Knowing the syntax of a particular language can be hard at first and confusing, as you can get confused especially if you use multiple programming languages. Well, nevertheless always remind yourself, I am writing code using “this language”. You can also download the language’s extension in your editor which can help sort out foreign syntax.

3. Logic and Lexical Semantics

This is where having a bug becomes really important!, With every line and error corrected, but there’s no output or the output is not what you want. Proper understanding of what you’re doing, what you want to get is really important so that  you don’t just do writing (coding) but rather programming.

4. Proper use of data types and structures

Knowing clearly which data type and structure will work best for a problem are the building blocks of programming. You can use the idea of sets which would help you to know which belongs to which. 

Though memory management and time complexity may not result in a bug, but brings about a poor UX and makes it really boring. Imagine having to wait for 2s after giving a run command in a game, or a website taking almost forever to load.

A programmer who has this knowledge can boast of being able to write efficient and bugless code.

Article by Rawlings Ngenge,

Intern @ landofstudies