CIS 2250 Lecture 5: 05 Reading Techniques

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 2250
• Professor: Deborah Stacey

Document Summary

Loops particularly how they begin and end one off errors. What"s i(cid:374) a (cid:374)a(cid:373)e function and variable names. Clues to the meaning of the function or variable. Don"t (cid:271)e afraid to do a global replace! Loops so much fun so little time. Loops are the source of many errors so if you are reading for errors, pay special attention to loops. Loops do much of the work for a program they are one of the keys to performance. Examine all calls to the libraries closely by: Reading documentation on the library and this particular call. Examining the parameters how were they were set and how does this effect the called procedure. If the code is long then break it into chunks (maybe the authors of the software should have done this) to read it and then see if indeed it should have been modularized more.