It Depends: How to Develop Judgement in Programming

Extending the idea of “best practice” in coding, this chapter asks the programmer to question the needs of their context rather than seeing “good” and “bad” coding practices in black and white. The central concept, that there are “forces” of coding, will be useful as a teaching resource to help students write good code and consider why they are coding in the first place.

This chapter is for anyone who codes and wants to expand their approach to coding independently, consciously, and/or collaboratively.