When we write code it is important to document the code’s behavior. One way to do this is to add comments to our code.
Starting a line with a double forward slash, //, will create a comment and the entire line will be ignored when we run the code.
The comments like the ones above can be added above a line or block of code to describe the code’s behavior. Shorter comments can be added to the end of a line of code as well.
In both examples, once you use // the rest of the line is now a comment.
If you want to create a comment with a beginning and end, you can use /* to begin the comment and */ to end the comment. This is known as a block comment:
As you can see from the above example a block comment can wrap multiple lines without the use of anything but the beginning notation /* and the ending notation */.
Instructions
The code in script.c is outputting a couple lines of text. Make sure you notate your thoughts above each string being output.
Above the first printf() statement in main():
- Add a single line comment with your own message about the string that’s output
Now give yourself some more room for commenting your code.
Above the second printf() statement inside main():
- Add a block comment with your extended thoughts on this string
While your additions to the code do not change the output, you have now recorded your thoughts on the code which might come in handy when you revisit the code another time.