Archive for September 16th, 2009

The case against i, j, and k

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One of the greatest programming books of all time is Code Complete by Steve McConnell.  I often recommend this book to new programmers and when I was running the IT department of the Dot Com I was working for, I made it required reading.

In it, Steve makes a great case against using i, j, and k for incrementing variables as in, for(i =0, i < 20;i++) because it describes nothing about what the code is doing.

What I intend to do today is to demonstrate from a real-life example that he’s right.

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