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Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Refactoring

Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand.

Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor code, you want to make sure all your variable and method names make sense and provide some context. For example, the variable name “x” does not provide any information about what information it stores or what it is used in. Instead, your variable name should be more specific, like “accountNumber.” Having more specific variable names also helps other programmers identify what your code does exactly.

You want to start looking at refactoring at specific times during your coding process. Refactoring Guru talks about the “Rule of Three” which means when you have to code the same thing for the third time you should consider refactoring. Also consider beginning to refactor when you add a new feature because someone else’s code might be too messy to read and you need to refactor to clean it up. That also makes it easier to implement additional features later down the line. You should also consider refactoring close to the deadline of your project since it will be the last chance to make changes to the code. Your project will become open to the public and you do not want other people to see your messy code.

When you refactor, the code should become cleaner and still maintain its functionality. Sometimes you may have to completely rewrite some parts of your code in order to do this. Other times it may just be as simple as adding some spacing or renaming a variable. All your tests should still pass after refactoring. If a test fails, you messed up somewhere and made an error.

In the past, I have done some refactoring myself and I hope to continue to practice refactoring to keep my code clean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Angular (No .js)

Looking at more frontend frameworks, this blog post was originally going to be used to take a look at Angular.js, but with its EOL soon approaching on December 31, 2021, I thought it may be better to look at a framework that is still receiving support from its developers. Angular (No js) is another type of framework that allows you to develop front-end applications. Angular works off of four main concepts : Components, Templates, Directives, and Dependency Injection. 

Components in Angular (like other frameworks and libraries) are the bread and butter of the framework. You need them in order to design your application. Every component in Angular has three pieces that make it whole. The first piece is an HTML template which is responsible for what can be seen on the page. The second piece involves the use of TypeScript. TypeScript works like JavaScript but has added support to work with types like in object-oriented programming. A class is written in TypeScript and it then defines the behavior of the component. The third piece is a CSS selector which determines how the component should be used.

Templates are the working parts of HTML in your application. They can be present in a component in one of two ways: “template” which allows you to define the content that goes in the component, or “templateUrl” which allows you to define the content of the component using a reference to another file. It’s important to note that only one of these declarations can be used in a component at a time. Because a template represents the HTML element it refers to, it allows the developer to omit the use of HTML tags while creating it.

Directives are like classes that allow you to add extra functionality to the elements in your application. Angular currently uses three types of directives. Components are the first type of directive which is defined as a directive with a template. The second directive is an attribute directive. This directive’s purpose is to change the appearance and or behavior of an entity within the application. The third directive is a structural directive. This directive allows you to change the Document Object Model (DOM) layout by adding or removing DOM elements.

Dependency Injection is a design pattern. Angular uses this pattern whenever a class needs an outside service in order to be able to carry out its functions. Instead of creating a new instance every time a service is needed which can be resource deficient, during runtime, the needed service(s) can be called upon and referred to.

Angular even has its own Command Line Interface(CLI) to help make the use of the framework more simplistic for the developer. 

I learned about the Angular framework in the link below. You can use it to find out more about things I didn’t get to mention in this post.

https://angular.io/guide/understanding-angular-overview

From the blog CS@Worcester – You have reached the upper bound by cloudtech360 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Why Vue

There are several frontend frameworks available to pick from, so why do we use Vue? To research about Vue and learn about its benefits, I decided to read blogs from Vue mastery, specifically one written by Lauren Ramirez.

  • Vue does not use up too much memory. Vue allows us to import only the pieces of the library that we need, which means whatever we don’t use will be removed for us via treeshaking.
  • Virtual DOM (Document Object Model) uses compile-based optimization resulting in faster rendering times.
  • To work with Vue, we did not have to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It was surprisingly easy how we were able to learn as we go.
  • Vue has many libraries that can be added as needed. Some of which are:
    • Vue Router (client-side routing)
    • Vuex (state management)
    • Vue Test Utils (unit testing)
    • vue-devtools (debugging browser extension)
    • Vue CLI (for rapid project scaffolding and plugin management)
  • Vue’s one of the best features – Composition API;
    • We are able to group features into composition functions then call them in the setup instead of having large unreadable and unmaintained code directly in setup.
    • We are able to export features from components into the functions. This means we don’t have to keep re-writing code and avoid having useless repetition.
  • Vue has enhanced support for TypeScript users as well.
  • In Vue, we are able to use multi root components. In most front-end frameworks component template should contain exactly one root element because sibling elements aren’t allowed. The way around to that problem is using functional components, they are components where you have to pass no reactive data means component will not be watching for any data changes as well as not updating itself when something in parent component changes. However, they are instance less and you cannot refer to them anymore and everything is passed with context. With the multi root component support of Vue (Vue 3), there are no such restrictions and we can use any number of tags inside the template section.
  • Vue 3 gives us the Teleport component, which allows us to specify template HTML that we can send to another part of the DOM. Sometimes a piece of a component’s template belongs there logically, but it would be preferable to render it somewhere else. This is useful for things like modals, which may need to be placed outside of the body tag or outside the Vue app.
  • Most importantly, Vue is open source. Vue has complete freedom to be community-driven and its bottom line is the satisfaction of its end users. It doesn’t have to answer to the company-specific feature demands and corporate bureaucracy.

Source: https://www.vuemastery.com/blog/why-vue-is-the-best-framework-for-2021-and-beyond/

From the blog CS-WSU – Towards Tech by murtazan and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.