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So for this blog post, I decided to look back at some of my own code. Below is a snippet from my CS 161 final assignment. I found a lot of code that could’ve been “cleaner” but the most obvious example is the unnecessary global variables. I also found a lot of redundancies and the readability isn’t great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d like to think I’ve improved since my freshman year, but I know there’s always room for improvement. Looking at the provided readings serves as a good reminder for practices that should always be in the back of my mind while working. If I could go back in time I’d tell myself that I need to keep working on avoiding redundant code by refactoring repeated parts into reusable functions. It\u2019s something I still tend to overlook when I\u2019m rushing to get things done, but I know it would make my code cleaner and easier to work with. I’d also tell myself that I really need to stop using global variables so much. They seem convenient, but they actually make things harder to test and understand later. I need to get better at passing information into functions the right way to make my code more organized and professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So for this blog post, I decided to look back at some of my own code. Below is a snippet from my CS 161 final assignment. I found a lot of code that could’ve been “cleaner” but the most obvious example is the unnecessary global variables. I also found a lot of redundancies and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/katalinanakoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}