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How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose?
I'm kind of inexperienced with programming (ie less than a year) and I have recently been getting discouraged, mostly from not being able to solve problems with my own code (Not forgetting parentheses ...
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How to read thousands lines of code without any documentation?
Previously I was searching for a good TimeLine control for a WPF project. I found an answer in Here which direct me to this CodePlex project.
Now I want to change code to feed my culture needs. But ...
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“// …” comments at end of code block after } - good or bad?
I've often seen such comments be used:
function foo() {
...
} // foo
while (...) {
...
} // while
if (...) {
...
} // if
and sometimes even as far as
if (condition) {
...
} // if ...
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Do you think code is self documenting?
This is a question that was put to me many years ago as a gradute in a job interview and it's nagged at my brain now and again and I've never really found a good answer that satisfied me.
The ...
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Mobile App Development Language Converter?
I was talking with a friend about developing a mobile app (android/iphone) but I've never messed around with mobile app development code before.
My friend flippantly told me that I don't "need to ...
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Are there any actual case studies on rewrites of software success/failure rates?
I've seen multiple posts about rewrites of applications being bad, people's experiences about it here on Programmers, and an article I've ready by Joel Spolsky on the subject, but no hard evidence or ...
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Are there code reviews in opensource projects? If so, what tools are used to do this?
I know there is a big push for code reviews in commercial development. However, are code reviews used in open source software or is based on trust? If so, then how are they performed? [Is it a delayed ...
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Good sites for sharing code snippets & pastes that you can share links to?
I know there are site tools to check if your webpage is alive, has compression, etc but lets not get into that.
What are useful sites to paste code in and to share links to it? The three i know are
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reading a .jpg file in an editor, and get rid of all the whitespaces [closed]
probably a simple question for some of you, however unfortunately not for me.
When I open some .jpg in a texteditor (in my case TextMate on the mac) I get a lot of weird code like this:
Those are ...
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It takes me hours to completely understand solutions to 1000-pt problems on TopCoder. Should I get discouraged?
Sometimes this applies to the 500-pt ones too. I sometimes start feeling I will never improve enough to code them with ease like the others. Should I just quit? If not, why? It is extremely annoying, ...
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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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Is “send us a page with code” a typical interview requirement?
Recently I was asked to show "a page with code" for a job interview. Being mainly a back-end programmer, and that's the position I applied for, I first said to the person I was talking to exactly ...
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Writing recursive functions
I am having a lot of trouble writing recursive functions related to trees. I can't just use google for these functions as they are not general and I won't be able to use google in an exam setting!
Is ...
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Is collective code ownership mandatory in Scrum?
Is is an absolute must when following the Scrum methodology to practice collective code ownership, instead of for example weak code ownership?
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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 ...
