Dev Questions with Tim Corey

010 Are Code Comments Important? Are Comments Bad? Is Code Self-Documenting?

July 30, 2020 Tim Corey Season 1 Episode 10
Dev Questions with Tim Corey
010 Are Code Comments Important? Are Comments Bad? Is Code Self-Documenting?
Show Notes

Should you write code comments? Are they important? Should you avoid comments? Do comments make your code bad? What is self-documenting code and should I be doing it?

Code comments actually cause quite a bit of controversy. In this episode, we are going to work through why they exist, how much you should use them, and why you might avoid them.

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