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The Norm

There’s a time writers/coders wonder if they should follow some guidelines when writing/coding.

I might not have a lot of experience myself as a blogger, but I can speak from the experience I got when I write code. Developers, we usually have our guidelines that we need to follow.

Take for example 42school’s The Norm:

The Norm asks you to create simple pieces of code, where the unique task of each piece can be clearly understood and verified, and where the sequence of all the executed instructions leaves no doubt.

The Norm asks you to use a specific look and feel […]. This will allow you to smoothly have a look at other’s codes that will look familiar, and get directly to the point instead of spending time reading the code before understanding it.

Each time that someone else, including you, has to fix a bug or add a new feature they won’t have to lose their precious time trying to figure out what it does if previously you did things in the right way.

Even though we can set some baseline rules, when doing peer reviews, we have to highlight and suggest ways to improve the written code.

I would assume when doing professional writing, the same rules might apply: piece can be clearly understood, get directly to the point…

You may have noticed, from the posts I wrote so far, I might not have set a lot of baseline rules. Although, I have tried to keep them simple.

Dear reader, thank you for trying to understand what I am sharing through this blog.