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Posted by Albert Buenaventura
Albert Buenaventura
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Do I need to put spaces before typing codes?

I'm just curious because I just notice that there are codes that have spaces after the line number and there are none...How can I know if I need to put spaces before typing the codes? or does it even matter if there is a space or none?

2 Answers

emmuster
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emmuster
emmuster
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To elaborate on Henriks response; Indenting code inbetween curly braces has just become standard practice. Some software like Visual Studio even does the formatting automatically for you.
Generally speaking, every time you type an open curly brace ( { ) you indent one time by pressing Tab, and every time you type a closed curly brace ( } ) you undo one indent by pressing Shift + Tab. But as I said, most coding software you'll use in the future (outside of Treehouse) probably does this by default.

Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
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if (condition)
{
  Console.WriteLine("Some text");
}

in case you are thinking about the code between { } then it's to make it easier to read the code.