You're struggling to evaluate your algorithmic code. How can you ensure its quality?

Taking feedback from fellow programmers and participating in code reviews significantly enhance code readability and help identify potential edge cases. These reviews not only help in bug detection and optimization but also improve overall code maintenance. As we gain more experience, our code review skills naturally improve. 😄

Reviewing code can help identify and rectify design flaws at an early stage and also instills a sense of responsibility in the developer. It is one of the best ways of self improvement without literally committing the blunders.

I think there are some main points that you need to take care of before asking for a code review or if you are invited to review someone's code: - Stick to your language conventions (something like PEP-8 Style guide for Python) - Naming conventions is mandatory not optional - Keep your methods short and focused on only one task - write unit tests - If you have less experience don't use complex design patterns because you will end up over engineering - SOLID is good if you are using OOP - write unit tests (they are really important)

As a professional software engineer you need to fight the temptation to just jump to the code and write it. First, write the test cases for your code and the expected results (unit tests) then write the actual code.

Adopt an 'Algorithm Fitness Program.' Design a comprehensive suite of performance tests that act like fitness routines for your algorithm. These tests should measure various aspects such as runtime, memory usage, and throughput under different conditions, akin to how athletes are tested in various scenarios. Create realistic, stress-test scenarios that mimic real-world usage to evaluate your algorithm's robustness. Track these metrics over time using visual dashboards to spot trends and areas needing improvement. This ongoing 'fitness' assessment not only ensures your algorithm meets performance requirements but also helps you proactively optimize and enhance its efficiency, keeping it in peak condition for real-world applications.

Complexity analysis is essential for optimizing algorithms. Typically, we focus on the worst-case time (Big O Notation) and space complexity when solving problems. By understanding these complexities and their impact on performance, we can effectively address and mitigate performance issues. Our solution should be robust and scalable for handling large datasets.

Here is how you can ensure the quality of your algorithm through complexity analysis: 1. Start by understanding the time complexity, using Big O notation to describe the upper bound of its running time as a function of input size, and evaluate it in best, average and worst cases. 2. Analyze the space complexity to determine how much memory the algorithm requires as the input size grows, considering in-place operations versus additional space requirements. 3. Perform empirical analysis by measuring the actual run-time on different input sizes to verify theoretical analysis and test scalability with large inputs to identify performance bottlenecks.

Complexity analysis is a tool we use before writing the actual code and it can tell us if it is even worth the effort to write or not. Software engineers should use other benchmarking tools after writing the code to test it practically and that is really important.

1. We can get an advise from developers community, our peers or other professional authorities. 2. We should revise and refine requirements to better understanding of our algorithm efficiency criteria (most frequent vs most heavy cases), then to test it for most relevant cases. 3. Brainstorm with your team, designated users, and make sure the algorithm is good enough