{"id":109,"date":"2006-12-13T21:47:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T02:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2006\/12\/13\/cleaner-code-in-matlab-part-1-of-series\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T18:22:19","slug":"cleaner-code-in-matlab-part-1-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2006\/12\/13\/cleaner-code-in-matlab-part-1-of-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaner code in MATLAB part one of series"},"content":{"rendered":"I am guilty of making some pretty horrible code from time to time, especially when I think no one else is looking.  I wanted to take the next few videos to show how you can go from code that is hard to read and maintain to code you proudly sign your name to.\r\n\r\nThis week we will define a simple problem, show some awful code that happens to work, and then make the code better by breaking down a logic check to smaller, easier to understand statements.\r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438798001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\nPS.  It was actually difficult to write code this bad.  I ended up writing the code well and messing it up because I could not write such awful code that actually worked properly!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2006\/12\/13\/cleaner-code-in-matlab-part-1-of-series\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/0609a8d9-aa6a-4de7-8f97-f9f59fb9af0d\/d5f32a6b-856d-49af-9c95-870d5125f081\/160x90\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">3:07<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>I am guilty of making some pretty horrible code from time to time, especially when I think no one else is looking.  I wanted to take the next few videos to show how you can go from code that is hard&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2006\/12\/13\/cleaner-code-in-matlab-part-1-of-series\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}