Why Best Practices to follow?

In my 5 years of experience, I have seen the various levels of structures, design patterns, and practices done by engineers and architects. Initially, my team lead told me about the method naming conventions and I was in a dilemma that :

What I will achieve by doing Best Practices?

this is the very common question that comes in everyone’s life at the beginning of their career. In this blog, we will discuss what and why? and conclude whether to follow the practices or not?

Define Best Practices?

Best Practices are the standards and Conventions which enables the reader to understand the code quickly based on his previous experience.

What you will achieve?

1. It improves the structural workflow of the application and decreases the time and money.
2. It makes your code short and sweet by following up shorthand operators.
3. It makes your code readable and quickly understandable to other engineers as well.
4. It increases the Speed of doing Programming, one need not remember the case (Pascal or Camel) of the identifiers.
5. It improves the code Re-Usability.
6. It reduces your stress level by not juggling with the program.
7. It improves communication among the team members.

In short, Best Practices makes you Regular and Disciplined with the Culture of Programming.

How will you learn?

Practices only learned by doing the right direction of Practices. Bit by bit you will be proficient enough and able to accustomed to it.

What If, you will not follow the Best Practices?

It depends on you but you might end up with these situations:

1. you might end up in the trap of fixing few lines of code again and again.
2. If you are not using modularisation in the programming, you might end up writing a method with 100 lines of code, leads to more complexity and full of ambiguity.
3. If you did not follow the naming conventions, you might end up creating a similar property name that is already doing your job.
4. If you did not use the reusability feature of Inheritance, you might end up writing the same method which performs the same functionality.

Anybody can write code which machine understands, but you are writing the code which human beings can understand.

What If, your team is not following the Best Practices?

I say it’s a very good opportunity for you to take the initiative, to begin with, and make them learned as well.

But if they don’t want to learn, it’s their choice, you are not going to be long-lasting in the same team. Instead, follow your own goal and write your code which is more consistent and maintainable.

So, its time to conclude that, Best Practices make your program more Consistent, Maintained, and Robust and we should follow this for leading a better life instead of stressful zones.

Thank you so much for taking out your few minutes to read this blog. I hope you enjoyed this blog.

…..Wish you a very Happy Programming……..