Structuring and Formatting Your Code

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How you use structured coding conventions directly affects how easy your code is to understand and maintain. General principles of applying a structure to your code have effects at the application level, the module level, and the procedure level. The corresponding use of formatting — line breaks, white space, and indentation — helps reveal the logic and structure of each procedure.