Unusual Control Structures and General Control Issues

A Presentation by CJ Castellani as told in an

American accent

Returns

• Multiple returns can enhance a routine’s readability and maintainability, and they help prevent deeply nested logic.

• They should still be used carefully

Recursion

• Recursion provides elegant solutions to a small set of problems

• Also use carefully

GOTOs

• In a few cases gotos are the best way to write code that is understandable and maintainable

• But that is rare• They should be used as a last

resort

Boolean Expressions

• Simple and readable boolean expressions

• Improves quality of code

Nesting

• Deep nesting can make things overly complicated

• It is easily avoidable

Structure

• Simplifying your programming is still relevant

• Any program can be built with a combination of good structured sequences and iterations

Complexity

• Minimize it to write high quality code

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