My new project is really a nightmare. Well, it is not really a new project. More like a currently running project with a deadline in January.
They are currently in a situation of having too few software engineers and too many software bugs and issues to do. So my colleague and I are hot drop in to act as reinforcement to save the day.
Now here's the interesting part. The code is damn huge and very messy. There are not alignments and hardly any comments in it. Very unreadable. So.... I have to spend a lot of time going through the codes, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
This is really testing for the eyes and brain. This is one reason why my codes are always probably structured and full of comments. Comments that dun say what it is doing (anyone can see that) but explain why it is doing this.
It's ok if you are the only one doing the programming, but it is a total nightmare if someone is to take over your codes or comes in to help you work on it, which in this case that someone is ME...
They are currently in a situation of having too few software engineers and too many software bugs and issues to do. So my colleague and I are hot drop in to act as reinforcement to save the day.
Now here's the interesting part. The code is damn huge and very messy. There are not alignments and hardly any comments in it. Very unreadable. So.... I have to spend a lot of time going through the codes, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
This is really testing for the eyes and brain. This is one reason why my codes are always probably structured and full of comments. Comments that dun say what it is doing (anyone can see that) but explain why it is doing this.
It's ok if you are the only one doing the programming, but it is a total nightmare if someone is to take over your codes or comes in to help you work on it, which in this case that someone is ME...
3 comments:
*pat pat*
good luck with the code.
well, in school our lecturer always teach us to tidy up the code with indents and comments, guess i see the reason now.
It sux reading other ppl's code, especially if it links to another file which links to another file... oh well...
Thanks for the encouragement.
I have no idea what is going on and when I ask the project software lead, he explain it to me, which confuse me even more. Getting depress... :(
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