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how to find out if spelling mistakes in source code are a serious issue or not?

I find very troubling amount of spelling mistakes I see everyday in our codebase, from which I will reproduce a very short but representative example: ArgumnetCount Timeount Gor message from queue ...
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How to quantify benefits from a programming training?

I'm conducting a programming training for 3 months. Details in this link - Programming Training Details. My question is "How do we quantify benefits from such training?". I think the two important ...
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Are there any opensource APIs that help analyze code?

As an example, let's say that I need to check for a certain usage of C# code and warn the user that that is a bad pratice. There are multiple usages that I want to detect, such as: Resource not ...
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About empty line of code

Why do my colleagues hate it when I add an empty line of code? Sometimes I add a few lines to see when a method ends and another one starts more easily.
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Is code ownership a code smell?

This is something I've been thinking about ever since I read this answer in the controversial programming opinions thread. And it has been discussed a bit in other threads, such as this one, but I ...
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Does this status show a green signal?

I have done this static code analysis with Code Analyzer. Is it a green signal or should I improve my coding standards?
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Writing/discussions about the aesthetics of code? [closed]

I'm looking for considerations of the questions "Can code be beautiful?" and "What makes code beautiful?" Examples would include: This academic paper: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code ...
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Correct alignment when outcommenting code

Suppose I have some code void some_block(void) { some_statement_1(); some_statement_2(); some_statement_3(); } Now I wish to out-comment statement #2, but here I never can find a way ...