--- title: Top 10 Programming Practices to Code like a Pro | daily.dev description: Good coding practices will save you time, effort, resources, and a hell lot of headaches. Back up and save your work people!!! If you lose your work just... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-programming-practices-to-code-like-a-pro-1t8ekeqcf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top 10 Programming Practices to Code like a Pro | daily.dev og:description: Good coding practices will save you time, effort, resources, and a hell lot of headaches. Back up and save your work people!!! If you lose your work just... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-programming-practices-to-code-like-a-pro-1t8ekeqcf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1t8EKeQCF.png og:image:alt: Top 10 Programming Practices to Code like a Pro og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top 10 Programming Practices to Code like a Pro **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@iayeshasahar](https://daily.dev/iayeshasahar) · 7 min read · 105 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary Good coding practices will save you time, effort, resources, and a hell lot of headaches. Back up and save your work people!!! If you lose your work just because of a minor issue, then all your hard work, all-nighters and headaches are gonna be for nothing. Write readable and efficient code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ch\_dev** · 2 upvotes > no pro should ever use comments in code, it's a justification of unreadable logic **@kk\_ben** · 1 upvotes > Great tips! **@lorezz** · 0 upvotes > Good tips, very general, anyway a lot of good practices. I think that something like row length nowadays is embedded inside most of editors ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-programming-practices-to-code-like-a-pro-1t8ekeqcf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Top 10 Programming Practices to Code like a Pro","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-programming-practices-to-code-like-a-pro-1t8ekeqcf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-programming-practices-to-code-like-a-pro-1t8ekeqcf"},"datePublished":"2021-09-07T10:00:15.511Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Good coding practices will save you time, effort, resources, and a hell lot of headaches. 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