language agnostic - When to make class and function?

Question

I am a beginner to programming when I start to code I just start writing and solve the problem. I write whole program in a single main function. I don't know when to make class, and functions.

What are good books which I read to learn these concepts?

Answer 1

A very general question, so just a few rules of thumb:

• code reuse: when you have the same or very similar piece of code in two places, it should be moved to a function

• readibility: if a function spans more than a single page on screen, you may want to break it apart into several functions

• focus: every class or function should do only one specific task. Everything that is not core to this purpose should be delegated to other classes/functions.