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Should code comments be capitalized?
A small one that is often overlooked: comments should be complete sentences. (Throughout, “comment” includes docstrings and any other English you write about your code.) Start comments with a capital, have a subject and a verb, and end them with a period.
Should comments have full stops?
Periods are for the end of a sentence. Comments are not necessarily full sentences. Comments, in general, should be sentences.
Should Python comments be capitalized?
Comments should be complete sentences. If a comment is a phrase or sentence, its first word should be capitalized, unless it is an identifier that begins with a lower case letter (never alter the case of identifiers!). If a comment is short, the period at the end can be omitted.
Do you put license in each source code file?
That way, anyone who cares about the license knows where to find it (ideally, people who’re willing to pay massive license fees; you certainly want those people to be able to contact you!) No, you don’t have to put the license in each source code file. If you look closer, most FOSS applications don’t do that either.
Do you have to see source code to comment on code?
JohnFx’s Commandment: The consumer of thy code should never have to see its source code to use it, not even the comments.
What are the best practices for commenting your code?
5 Best Practices for Commenting Your Code 1 (1) Comments are not subtitles 2 (2) Comments are not an art project 3 (3) Header Blocks: Nuisance or Menace? 4 (4) Comments are not source control 5 (5) Comments are a code smell
What do you mean by commenting in programming?
Commenting is the “art” of describing what your program is going to do in “high level” English statements. Commenting is best done before actually writing the code for your program. Comments are specially marked lines of text in the program that are not evaluated.