"A good programmer is a good communicator."I took MIPS assembly from Dr. Roth and he would grade our assembly not only on coding content but also on the grammar and spelling in our comments. Whenever students would complain about how this wasn't an English class but an assembly language class he would repeat the above quote. "A good programmer is a good communicator" was a common mantra at my university.
The programmer communicates their thoughts and ideas to both the machine and the other programmers who read their code. If your comments and notes don't leave a clear picture of what your code does and what it was intended to do, then you have failed as a communicator. If you are clear about your intentions and vision then you are more likely to have success.
