other programmersyou should write meaningful comments todaymost software is written collaborativelywhether by group of employees at one company or group of people working together on an open source project skilled programmers expect to see comments in codeso it' best to start adding descriptive comments to your programs now writing clearconcise comments in your code is one of the most beneficial habits you can form as new programmer when you're determining whether to write commentask yourself if you had to consider several approaches before coming up with reasonable way to make something workif sowrite comment about your solution it' much easier to delete extra comments later on than it is to go back and write comments for sparsely commented program from now oni'll use comments in examples throughout this book to help explain sections of code try it yourse lf - adding commentschoose two of the programs you've writtenand add at least one comment to each if you don' have anything specific to write because your programs are too simple at this pointjust add your name and the current date at the top of each program file then write one sentence describing what the program does the zen of python for long timethe programming language perl was the mainstay of the internet most interactive websites in the early days were powered by perl scripts the perl community' motto at the time was"there' more than one way to do it people liked this mind-set for whilebecause the flexibility written into the language made it possible to solve most problems in variety of ways this approach was acceptable while working on your own projectsbut eventually people realized that the emphasis on flexibility made it difficult to maintain large projects over long periods of time it was difficulttediousand time-consuming to review code and try to figure out what someone else was thinking when they were solving complex problem experienced python programmers will encourage you to avoid complexity and aim for simplicity whenever possible the python community' philosophy is contained in "the zen of pythonby tim peters you can access this brief set of principles for writing good python code by entering import this into your interpreter won' reproduce the entire "zen of