droidcon NYC '19: //TODO: Write a Better Comment
droidcon NYC 2019 | //TODO: Write a Better Comment | Adam McNeilly
What you'll learn
Comments have the potential to make or break a codebase. Helpful comments can save you from a lot of reading and debugging. Poor comments can send you on wild goose chases toward something that turns out to be a different problem after all. In this talk, Adam McNeilly will teach you how to differentiate between unhelpful and helpful comments. Adam will also discuss when you can remove a comment entirely and when you can optimize the helpfulness of the ones you keep. By the end, you'll have an understanding of how code and comments coexist, and how to leverage comments for long term benefits in your projects.
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About the author
Droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android platform. Droidcon engages a global network of over 25,000 developers attending events in 22 cities. The first droidcon conference was held in 2009 in Berlin and, since, it has spread its influence across the globe and established itself as the world's foremost community-driven conference format. Droidcon is the place to meet the international A... more