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# 10 Coding principles that no one will teach you

**[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 7 min read · 62 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

Writing good code is equivalent to writing a good story. Always keep your code in modules, and instead of giving a looooooong script/jupyter notebook as your solution, make use of the import system. Create a version0 solution first. This will allow us to showcase some progress and start a discussion.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@noiseimpera** · 3 upvotes

> nice!

**@ludskywalker** · 0 upvotes

> Wow, this article explain logical rules which we use to apply in ours daily works, it's very well

**@britzdm** · 0 upvotes

> Great article

**@berkmann18** · 0 upvotes

> The title is clickbait.
> At least the OP raised some good points.

**@thedeanmachine** · 0 upvotes

> Emotional attachment to code is very real, don't believe press delete on the last thing you wrote.

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