Final Touches and Share
Explore how to polish your C++ Budget Tracker by refactoring code, adding clear comments, improving naming conventions, and ensuring consistent formatting. This lesson helps you create a maintainable, documented, and shareable project, ready to add to your programming portfolio and demonstrate good software engineering habits.
Congratulations! You’ve reached the final stage of your C++ Budget Tracker project. Over the past lessons, you’ve learned how to:
Store and update income.
Record and validate expenses by category and amount.
Interact with the program using a CLI (command line interface).
This is no small feat.
Many beginners stop at “Hello World” or simple calculators, but you’ve gone further by creating a practical, usable application. However, writing code is only part of being a programmer. Professional developers also ensure that their projects possess the following attributes.
Polished: Clean, readable, and maintainable.
Documented: Explained with comments and instructions.
Shareable: Packaged into a runnable format so others can use it.
That’s exactly ...