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Planning your documentation

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This chapter guides you through how to turn the empathy you gained in Chapter 1 into action with a documentation plan, which outlines the content and content types you need to create before you start writing.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    B.J. Keeton, “How to comment your code like a pro,” Elegant Themes, published April 3, 2019, www.elegantthemes.com/blog/wordpress/how-to-comment-your-code-like-a-pro-best-practices-and-good-habits.

  2. 2.

    Omar Abdelhafith, “README.md: History and components,” Medium, published August 13, 2015, https://medium.com/@NSomar/readme-md-history-and-components-a365aff07f10.

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    Shariq Nazr, “Say goodbye to manual documentation with these 6 tools,” Medium, published March 30, 2018, https://medium.com/@shariq.nazr/say-goodbye-to-manual-documentation-with-these-6-tools-9e3e2b8e62fa.

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Bhatti, J., Corleissen, Z.S., Lambourne, J., Nunez, D., Waterhouse, H. (2021). Planning your documentation. In: Docs for Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7217-6_2

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