Imagine instead, you're writing code that's a hundred thousand lines, a million lines, of code. You don't want to write it in this form. All right, and the reason you don't want to do that is, well, several.

换一个角度来思考,你正在写的代码有几十万行，近百万行,你绝对不想写成这种格式,好吧，你不想这么做的原因有以下几个。

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But for the next week or two when you're writing programs, at least for the first time, generally if you're trying Scratch to debug them like you might have been trying to troubleshoot Scratch, you're probably going to reason - through it by looking through the your code -- -- top to bottom, maybe engage a staff member for help -- but your friend will also be printf.

但是，在接下来的一两周内，当你们写程序的时候，或至少在第一次写的时候，通常如果你在调试程序,就像你们可能已经试着调试过,你们或许是通过查看你们的代码,来推断你们的程序-,从头到尾，可能还需要别人的帮忙-,但是你的朋友也将要打印输出。

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Because as you'll soon find, when you're writing programs 0 that aren't just four lines long but are 40 or 400 which very quickly becomes easy, you'll find that even you the next morning have no idea what this code does for whatever reason, and just having some English comments is a huge boon to comprehension for yourself and others.

你们自己写程序时就会发现,用40行甚至400行代码来代替繁杂拥挤的4行代码0,将会让事情简化许多，你会发现，即使由于某些原因,你不知道如何写代码，先写些注释，于人于己，都是好事,易于理解嘛。

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