Computer Science 15-100, Fall 2009
Class Notes:  Style + Code Conventions + Style Rubric

• Some Style Facts
• Some Style Guides
• Our Style Grading Rubric

Some Style Facts

• Good style is...
  • Both an art and a science.
  • Open to some debate, yet mostly agreed upon.
  • The product of years of suffering due to bad style.
     
• Good style reduces errors, and...
  • Software errors cost the US economy about $60 Billion annually! (source)
  • Software errors have resulted in many spectacular failures (source)
     
• Good style reduces maintenance costs, and...
  • Only 10% of development costs go into writing code, the other 90% into maintaining it (source)
     
• Good style will...
  • Help you get an "A"
  • Help you get a "job"
  • Help you be happy, healthy, prosperous, and keenly admired by all.

Some Style Guides

• Sun's Official Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language
• Our optional textbook's Style Guide (See Appendix F)
• Our section's 15-111 Style Guide from Spring 2007
• Cay Horstmann's Big Java Style Guide
• David Barnes + Michael Kölling's Objects First Style Guide
• Many, many others...

Our Style Grading Rubric

carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem   -   carpe diem