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Discuss internal and external documentation. Include their purposes and the kind of information one would find in each.

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The solution discusses internal and external documentation of a program. Documentation is a description on how a program works, how it is used, and how it can be revised.

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Documentation is a description on how a program works, how it is used, and how it can be revised. Documentation must be done both internally and externally.

Internal documentation is a comment/s within the programming code. Lanier (2008) said that comments should give a close explanation of specific things within the code, while external documents are needed to give context to the program itself.
Internal documentation are comments and remarks made by the programmer in ...

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