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Is there a name for being able to quickly find the relevant code?

I notice that a property of codebases that I like hacking on is that it's quick to find the relevant code for some feature, without knowing much about the code base at all. For example, searching for ...
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6answers
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Is it a bad practice to write shell script with many if-else statment and for loops?

I am maintaing several data process shell scripts which are full of if-else statements and for loops . I try to make the scritps tidy and easy to debug. When I read some suggestions about shell code ...
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7answers
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How to improve the training of students regarding maintainability?

Maintainability is a major stake of professional software development. Indeed, maintenance is nearly always the longest part of a software life cycle, as it lasts from the project release until ...
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17answers
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How would you know if you've written readable and easily maintainable code?

How would one know if the code he created is easily maintainable and readable? Of course in your point of view (the one who written the code) your code is readable and maintainable, but we should be ...