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Hello and welcome to the last post of my blog. I’ve really enjoyed writing these throughout the semester since it helped me learn more about computer science and programming in general. For this last week, I will talk about refactoring. It is one of the most important concepts to grasp in programming because it can greatly improve your code over time. Refactoring is a way of rewriting and improving code without changing the functionality of the original code. Your code may be hard to look at or understand by other programmers so you may want to refactor it to make it easier to read and understand. Your code should be clean so you don’t end up having technical debt later on. Rushing your coding to meet deadlines will pretty much guarantee messy code and you should start refactoring early on so that the messy code does not keep piling up. When messy code keeps piling up, it becomes more of a burden to refactor and the programmer may become more unmotivated to fix it. When you refactor co...

Hello everyone and welcome back to another week of my blog. This week I will be talking about UML diagrams. UML stands for Unified Modeling Language and it is used to model business, application structures, programming languages, analysis, design, and implementation of software-based systems. In other words, it is a way to visually represent the design and implementation of complex software. There can be many lines of codes in your software and it can be difficult to keep track of all the class relationships and hierarchies. UML diagrams can make it easier for developers to see the relationships and hierarchies. UML diagrams can work for many different programming languages. It is a standardized modeling language that any language can incorporate into the language of their choosing. There are two different types of UML diagrams. The two different types are structural and behavioral. Structural UML diagrams show how a system is structured. They show how classes and object components wor...