A Simple Checklist Guide in Web and Application Development
I myself am a programmer by hobby and profession. I have gone through the dos and don’ts in development. Throughout my 5 years in the programming industry, I have summarize my learnings in Application and Web Development in five (5) main points. I hope this could help you in your development career as future programmers.
- The Database Class – If you are developing a database driven application for the desktop or for the web. It is helpful to create your own Database class. It is a simple template that you would simply call whenever you need to connect to your database server. Once you have this class or function, it is now easy to gather your data and compressing your five or more lines of code into one function call. By this, it improves system architecture and derives an N-Tier type of system architecture.
- A Class for the Major Tables in the Database – As an expansion to the item prior to this item, it could be convenient to represent major tables in your database as classes and make use of them as objects throughout the whole program. By this, data referencing could be more convenient.
- Look and Feel and CSS – Moving to the front-end aspect of your development, impress your system users and site visitors with impressive GUI Design and Web Template Layout. Use significant colors with good color combinations. If you are in the Web Design and Development Industry, utilize the useful options and styles of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for you to be able to produce better results.
- Modularize and Normalize – Going back to the back-end modularize and structure your code properly for better readability. When the time comes that you now have a lengthy program and code, it would be easier to look back at a clean code without any headache at all. Of course, the most important is to Normalize your Database properly. Better normalization results to less redundant and more significant data on your database.
- Conventions – So goes the code, so goes the program. Make use of uniform and practical naming and coding convention for your scripts, functions, and classes. With good and uniform naming and coding convention, debugging is easier and code modification will be more convenient.
So there you have it, my Top-5 Programmers guideline in application and web development. I do not wish to enforce all programmers who will be able to read this entry to make use and follow the same convention as I do. This is for me to suggest and share my convenient means in development. I hope you gained and learning from this entry. I encourage comments to be posted for me to also learn from others.
