Learn code review

- [Instructor] There is a law attributed to Linus…who started the Linux project.…It says given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.…This means that the more people who look at the code,…the more bugs are likely to be found.…I teach a lot of classes, and my students catch my mistakes…every time before I have a chance to find them myself.…The process of letting other people look at your code…and comment on it is called code review,…and I highly recommend it as a central part…of your development process.…You'd be amazed how many bugs are caught…and how many improvements people come up with.…

There are many ways of doing code review,…from sitting together in a room and going over the code…to online tools where people comment on…the changes you make to the code.…No matter how you are doing it,…it's important to remember that…people are commenting on the code and not on you.…Some people get very defensive…when people comment on their code,…and it makes the code review process very painful.…Getting everyone to understand we're just trying…