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Open Source Way

Software engineers tend to skim code to quickly identify relevant portions. When writing code from scratch, many developers tend to write long functions. Bunching code up makes it easier to read and reason about on the first pass and debug. If you cram all capabilities an object can offer into a single, giant function, later, when you're trying to utilize that object, IDEs will be of no help.

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Break up bunched-up code by extracting methods

<p>Extract methods and break-up bunched up code.</p>
