Cleaning up my first official project.

Question

I just finished a project, but it needs to be cleaned, like it's REALLY messy.

Since it's my first official project, I would like to ask the community:

Where do I start cleaning up?
Do you have any hints what I should look out for?

Answer 1

* Follow Programming standards.
No reason to get into bad habits that you later regret once you fully start understanding things.

* Try to minimize operations. By this I mean don't try to do extra unnecessary steps. Every line of code should have a purpose.

* Look for a more optimal solution.

* If you're like me and always wondering about the performance of the smallest things, when it comes to performance differences that are as small as calling a method, focus more on read-ability. At that point, read-ability and management is far more important.

Is the code posted here on SoloLearn?

Answer 2

Hm. Sounds hard coded 😜.
By any chance is there hundreds of if statements?

If so, those could probably be reduced in the number of lines of code.

Answer 3

No, it's a bit hard to post 7K lines on Sololearn.

It includes access to a database, Spring lib and a lot of Frames/Forms

Answer 4

Surprisingly not, I used a few switch statements, but most is there to access the database and formatting the right inputs to the database