Coding style is a set of guidelines that helps readability and understanding of the source code.
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How do I keep co-worker from writing horrible code? [closed]
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How do I approach a coworker about his or her code quality?
I can handle the for in.. without the hasOwnProperty filtering.
I can handle the blatant disregard for the ...
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is there any elegant way to analyze an engineer's process?
Plenty of sentiment exists that measuring commits is inappropriate.
Has any study been done that tries to draw in more sources than commits - such as:
browsing patterns
IDE work (pre-commit)
idle ...
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Is extensive documentation a code smell? [closed]
Every library, open-source project, and SDK/API I've ever come across has come packaged with a (usually large) documentation file, and this seems contradictory to the wide-spread belief that good code ...
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What should my “large codebase sample” look like?
If an employer asks for a large code sample, one for an entire project, what characteristics should the project have to show architectural skills and the ability to manage a large codebase?
For ...
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Why would an employer ask for a 'long' code sample?
What would a large project that spanned multiple files and >1000 lines show to an employer that a few individual files and a couple hundred lines couldn't capture?
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How does a “Variables introduce state”?
I was reading the "C++ Coding Standards" and this line was there:
Variables introduce state, and you should have to deal with as little state as possible, with lifetimes as short as possible.
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Style bits vs. Separate bool's
My main platform (WinAPI) still heavily uses bits for control styles etc. (example).
When introducing custom controls, I'm permanently wondering whether to follow that style or rather use individual ...
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Should coding standards be enforced by the continuous integration server?
Should coding standards/style be enforced by the continuous integration server running static analysis tools (ex. PMD, StyleCop/FxCop) and failing the build if the standards are not followed? What ...
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How should I get my code ready for OpenSourcing it and putting it on GitHub?
In a few weeks, my project is going to be finished and I want to start getting my code ready for other people to use it.
I am going to be posting everything to GitHub so people can tweak it and ...
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How do I organize a GUI application for passing around events and for setting up reads from a shared resource
My tools involved here are GTK and Haskell. My questions are probably pretty trivial for anyone who has done significant GUI work, but I've been off in the equivalent of CGI applications for my whole ...
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Simple vs Complex (but performance efficient) solution - which one to choose and when?
I have been programming for a couple of years and have often found myself at a dilemma.
There are two solutions -
one is simple one i.e. simple approach, easier to understand and maintain. It ...
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conventions for friend methods in Perl
Perl doesn't support a friend relationship between objects, nor does it support private or protected methods. What is usually done for private methods is to prefix the name with an underscore. I ...
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Generic software code style enforcer [closed]
It seems to me to be a fairly common thing to do, where you have some code that you'd like to automatically run through a code style tool to catch when people break your coding style guide(s).
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Using prefix incremented loops in C#
Back when I started programming in college, a friend encouraged me to use the prefix incrementation operator ++i instead of the postfix i++, citing that there was a slight chance of better performance ...
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Method flags as arguments or as member variables?
I think the title "Method flags as arguments or as member variables?" may be suboptimal, but as I'm missing any better terminology atm., here goes:
I'm currently trying to get my head around the ...
