Coding Guidelines for Submitted Code

All code submitted for a grade in DSC 140S: Fundamentals of Data Science must contain the following elements:

• All function names and variables names must be short but descriptive. Exceptions to this are allowed where there is a typical programming convention such as using n to represent the length of a list or using i in a for loop to iterate through the indices of a list.
• All blocks of code must contain a descriptive comment that describes what the code does. This does not mean you need to include a comment for every line of code, but for sections of code that are used to accomplish a single tasks you could create a comment for that section.
• All functions must have a docstring which includes a description of the function, a list and description of all arguments, and a list and description of all returned values.