Abstract:

The course of computer programming becomes one of the fundamental courses for undergraduate students and those who do not major in computer science． When the course is completed, however, many students’ practical programming abilities are still poor, and the quality of their codes is low．This paper focuses on one of the reasons, that is, the students do not possess a good programming style．We present the importance of training a good programming style and how to help students to improve their programming styles in the course of teaching．

Key words: computer programming, programming style, coding conventions, coding rules