Thurs Nov 6: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Greetings VB code monkeys!

Today you will be looking over the code of (most) of your classmates, and rating each one based on it's "ease of translation". By this I mean two things:

A) How well is it commented? Has the author of this particular program made enough notes about what is going on in their program for you, a fellow programmer, to be able to figure out what they are doing now, and what they are going to TRY to do in the future.

B) How easy is it to "read" this program? Even beyond the commenting, is the code set up so that it is easier for you to figure out what they mean to do with this program? Have they re-named their controls with descriptive words that tell you what each thing is for? Have they divided up their program among different forms, and made use of modules, such that it seems that this program would not only be easy for you a fellow programmer to debug, but for the average person to use?

I will need you to post a discussion on our Google group where you will write at least two complete sentences about each program. Please list the name of the program -- PROGRAM1, PROGRAM2, etc etc -- followed by those descriptive complete sentences. At the end of each one, assign a rating from 1 to 5, with 1 being "what the heck was THAT? It's completely unreadable!" to 5 being "D--n you're good, I envy you, you complete show off!"

Additionally, I wish for you to make one constructive suggestion OR ask one specific question about each program. This should be done at the very end of your discussion posting.

When you are done with this, please continue on with your project work

Cheers,
Mr. L

PS Here is the address of the folder where you will find these code sheets:

http://www.box.net/shared/rsoath5sk8