Programming statements that can be easily understood by another programmer or even by the original author. Some languages are inherently more self-documenting than others. For example, to the novice, ...

In the 1980s, [Mike] was working on his own RPG for the Commodore 64, inspired by dungeon crawlers of the era like Ultima IV and Telengard, both some of his favorites. The mechanics and gameplay were ...

A reader recently wrote asking if it's OK to skip commenting functions that are “obvious.” He gave the example: I struggled to find any ambiguity in this definition and failed. It's pretty darn clear ...