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title: "What are coding standards in software engineering?"  
description: "What are coding standards in software engineering?"  
author: "Rahul Roi"  
published: 2019-12-12  
updated: 2019-12-12  
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# What are coding standards in software engineering?

hey guys,,please give us an idea about coding standard.

## Replies

### Reply by Nishi Tiwari

Coding Standard are the set of rules and guidelines that developer must follow while writing the source code for project. Different organizations follow their different coding standards to write the source code.

Every company use their own coding standard which they follow. So developers use these standards which maintains the consistency of code. It reduces the chances of errors and complexity of program

**[some of coding standards](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/145576/what-is-the-difference-between-coding-standards-and-coding-guidelines)** are proper indentation, limited use of global, standard headers file used for modules, naming convention of local variables, global variables and functions and error returning values with exception handling convention.


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