You learn lots of things when you go to college and get a computer science degree or read a how-to-program book. Unfortunately, a number of good programming habits are either untaught or take a good amount of practice to turn into a way of life. TechRepublic Premium presents 10 such habits you should cultivate to become a better programmer.

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  6. Document the reason for a change

  All too often, there will be a change in an application but no documentation of why the change was made. A few months later, someone will notice that the change conflicts with another requirement and demand to know why it was made, and no one will actually know. The next thing you know, everyone will be losing a lot of time trying to figure out where the change came from and why. By documenting the purpose of the change (and who the requester is), you’ll be saving everyone a big headache down the road.

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