Tips for Writing Self-Documenting Code

How to write code that other developers can actually read

Mike Cronin
ITNEXT
Published in
4 min readSep 27, 2019

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Self-documenting code is just a fancy way of saying “readable code,” and readable code is what keeps you from losing your mind at work. It’s no replacement for real docs or a well placed comment, but it never hurts to write better code. Let’s talk about some habits that will make your work easy to…

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