There's just something so beautiful about naked code on my IDE.

Well I'd say, practice clear naming and use many functions. Then commenting might not be needed

@ChappIO I agree, though as a current student, my professors (understandably) require descriptive commenting. My personal projects have proper names to inherently clean up the readability of the code.
ISwearIDontWriteUnnecessarilyLongFunctionNames(bool bullshit) {}

@Seag ah yes, in a course that makes perfect sense