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October 22nd, 2010

Formatting code for readability

 The use of whitespace can make your code more pleasant to read. This is not just a nicety, it actually makes it easier to see the structure of your code and makes it more clear where code breaks the established patterns to help find bugs (like copy and paste bugs). Though not presented in this video, Scott pointed out that comments and cell dividers are also excellent ways to format code.
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Doug first used MATLAB in 1994, could not figure it out until he got some help in 1995. He is now dedicated to making sure that no one else wastes a year of their life not knowing MATLAB like he did.

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  1. the cyclist replied on October 29th, 2010 at 22:53 UTC :

    I have used whitespace in this way for a long time, and I teach rookie developers to do the same. Another advantage to coding in this way is that when portions of code that are logically parallel are written in a visually parallel way, it helps avoid simple typos and other bugginess.

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Wrap code fragments inside <pre> tags, like this:

<pre class="code">
a = magic(3);
sum(a)
</pre>

If you have a "<" character in your code, either follow it with a space or replace it with "&lt;" (including the semicolon).
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