My pathway into software development was through electrical engineering and embedded systems. So I don't know if this applies to other ways into software develo

My pathway into software development was through electrical engineering and embedded systems. So I don't know if this applies to other ways into software development as well. But what really stood out to me in the beginning was how useless code comment where. I would almost always see code like this: x = 1; // assign 1 to x y = x * 2; // multiply x by 2 I don't know if it was because they thought electrical engineers needed to be explained everything about code. Or if it was because all teaching material used this style and people just copied it. But I never understood why you would add comments like this, but had to do so anyways otherwise I would not pass my exams. It took me a while to learn that comments are the tool in which you can express your expectation of what the code should do.