Programming is how we bend computers to our will. Well, how we want to do that. Sometimes they get the better of us.
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Working on someone else's code [closed]
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What is the most effective way to add functionality to unfamiliar, structurally unsound code?
I have hardly a year's experience in coding. After I started working, most ...
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I target short projects, but fail miserably on projects that requires persistence [closed]
I know this is kind of time-management question. I do well in short assignments, but fail miserably, when it comes to projects that require hours and hours of work to be done day after day.
I cannot ...
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Is this kind of Design by Contract useless?
I've just started informatics university and I'm attending a programming course about C(++). The programming professor prefers to connect every topic with a type of programming design that is similar ...
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How to minimize typos when you code?
I make a lot of typing mistakes when I program. I have a good keyboard writing speed but I try to write faster and in the process end up making typos.
I want to type faster, but make less errors. Can ...
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What parts of Code Complete haven't stood the test of time? [closed]
I was looking at Code Complete on the shelf, thinking, "Outside of the Mythical Man Month, this may be one of the few mass market Software Engineering books to stand the test of time." For this ...
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What degree do you have and what are you working with today? [closed]
NOTE! This is to all who have studied/learned programming related stuff.
Don´t know if the thread is accepted but I'm asking.
Write it short and answer by the steps below please.
What degrees I ...
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How to do best practice development as the single IT guy in a small company
For the best part of the last decade I have been working as the only IT guy in tiny company. At it's peak this company employed about 8 staff. It's now down to 4, one of them part time. So the going ...
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Website with test data files for specific algorithms/data structures?
Is there any website, like SPOJ and Project Euler, with the test data files available for specific algorithms/data structures?
I know it's a fun challenge to solve those problems on your own, but I ...
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Coding in known language or learning a new one in free time? [closed]
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Should I focus on being deep or broad
Doing which of {coding,learning} will you recommend for a programmer in his/her free time?
Of course,this question is valid in case ...
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Is it possible to learn maths via programming, or you should learn maths for programming?
I am not the best in maths, not very horrid either, but lower than the average, I've always been thinking to improve my maths, but schools and books didn't do the job because I get bored too fast. The ...
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After writing code, why do I feel that “I would have written better” after some time? [closed]
I have been working on my hobby project in C++ for more than 2 years. Whenever I write a module/function, I code it with lot of thinking. Now see the problem,
do {
--> write the code in module ...
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Use of NotImplementedException
Is it considered bad practice to throw NotImplementedException for code you haven't written yet? Possibly TODO comments would be considered safer?
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Do platform independence and different paradigms deter newcomers? [closed]
I'm only 18, and as such my initial ventures into programming were the usual 2000s-dominating high-level, paradigm-saturated affairs, complete with obsession with platform independence and 'good' ...
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How Much Logic in Getters
This question has been asked in different ways, but nothing that's actually what I want to know.
Got me confused at work now. They tell me there should be as little logic as possible in getters and ...
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Website where you can see how other programmers write their code
I remember seeing a website where people upload videos of themselves writing code. However, I can not find that site now.
The purpose is to see how others code, to see how they refactor their code, ...
