Comments

As you write your programs, make sure that you litter your code with many comments. These comments can be extensive, describing in detail the intention of a following code, or they can be short phrases, giving a physical connection to a variable or line of code. You will find that writing comments while you code, will help flesh out ideas and further your understanding of the problems that you are attempting to solve or algorithms that you are attempting to implement.

You will also find that well written comments will enable you to reinsert yourself back into your code at some later point in time with little or no difficulty. Comments will help you understand what you were trying to do. Without comments, you will be as foriegn to your own programs as the next person even after only a short time has past. If you have to fix a bug three months after writing some particular code, reading your well written comments will save valuable time.