Bentley AutoPLANT coding best practices

comment lines. There can be too much – but not likely – comment, comment comment
use camelCase for variables – classes – use a capital letter to start
- avoid underscores
- never use spaces
prefix all functions with elb_ or your company name
document with pictures
- use a blog
- if you store pictures, do so in an easy to transport tool like powerpoint – because everyone has this as a tool
all code should be version controlled. If you don’t have one, download SourceTree a github.
where possible feed in only human understandable variables -the least possible
- these variables should be well documented via a blog and this url linked into the code comments at the top.
- let your computer program do all the hard work with math
- there will be some hardcoding like the thickness of a peice of metal – however, with “hardcoding”
  - avoid it when possible
  - never hardcode in-line but abstract a niceVariableNameWithCamelCase and then assign the hardcoding to that. Use this variable over and over.
  - put all you hardcoded variables at the top of your routine