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Good source code documentation is essential, but writing software documentation is not always a popular task with coders who don’t want to be technical writers. Fortunately, the excellent Doxygen ...

One of the questions often seen in programming forums is how to get started with contributing to open source projects. While survey after survey points to the growing popularity of the open source ...

Good documentation is important for any application, and it starts with documenting your code. It helps you and it helps your users. It's no secret that I believe documentation is a crucial element of ...

Explaining in one's native language (English, Spanish, Russian, etc.) what the source code of a program does. Throughout the history of programming, the range of program documentation ranges from ...

When I was a wet-behind-the-ears Unix user and programmer, the go-to response to any tech question was RTFM, which stands for "Read the F… Fine Manual." Unfortunately, this hasn't changed for the ...