A coding style is a set of conventions and practices used in software, such as naming classes, variables, and files.
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Color fading function
I found this old color fading function in my snippets folder and would like to implement it to one of my projects. It can be used to fade one color to another. It's a very long one-liner:
D3DCOLOR ...
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Are these good examples of functions that do one thing only or am I getting a little carried away?
I'm reading Robert C. Martin's "Clean Code" and for the past few days I've been fiddling with its function writing guidelines. At first I thought the idea of functions being two/three lines long to be ...
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How to get rid of semantic duplication
I am breaking my head with how to get rid of semantic duplication(Code that is syntactically the same but does different things).
I can't find anywhere a post or something that mentions a bit how to ...
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How can I improve this C++ 'genetic algorithm' implementation?
now that I am almost done with my uni studies, I'm about to start jobhunting (aiming mostly for a Gameplay Programmer), and so I've created a code sample that I will link with my applications.
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C++ Linked List: Would This Code be Considered Clean If written in an Hour Long Interview
If you were interviewing me, and saw this code written in a little under an hour would you consider me as a candidate for a position at your company if you knew I had 2 years of C++ experience.
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Anyone have some ideas about my code?
I have this class that pulls people out of a database. I want it to be a little prettier and function better. Anone got ideas? Feel free to ask questions :)
<?php
class comps extends db_config {
...
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Trying to get better at Ruby and programming in general- here's a simple TopCoder question in Ruby
I want to get general feedback and feedback about if I can make this more Ruby-like, if there are any obvious inefficiencies, and if I need to organize my class differently. The topcoder question is ...
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Is there a better way to count seconds in python
def stopWatchSeconds(secondCnt) :
""" counts second for secondCnt seconds """
# is there a better way to do this?
startTime = time.clock()
ellapsed = 0
for x in range(0, ...
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Recommended Naming for function that tests and mutates
I am a huge proponent of self-documenting code (when at all possible). I prefer to have code be self evident by the very nature of the names of the variables, methods, etc.. For instance:
if ...
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Checklist for coding MVVM web application [closed]
We are a small team working on a web application using MVVM design pattern using technologies like .NET, Knockout and HTML. I am trying to come up with a code review process and as a first step trying ...
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Default value or conditional?
Which of the following two is preferred:
var somevar = valueA;
if(condition) {
somevar = valueB;
}
or:
var somevar;
if(condition) {
somevar = valueB;
} else {
somevar = valueA;
}
?
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Global variables in python, bottle microframework
I'm sort of at a loss for what to do with webapps and whether what I'm doing is actually allowed or not. Here is a sample of the type of thing i'm doing at the moment. I need a list that is accessible ...
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Email report generation from database
I have written a small batch job which will collect data from db and send mail to user. Can you please do a review of the code with design prinicples in mind and also with best practices for Db and ...
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Java Question for An Absolute Beginner [closed]
This is for a beginning Java course that poses the problem:
Write a class named Employee that has the following fields:
name. The name field references a String object that holds the employee's ...
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Can I make a regex array to iterate through in C++?
I have to check a string to various regular expressions in C++. Up to now, I've done this using something similar to this:
regex regex_a (".."); string rewrite_a = "($1/$2)";
regex regex_b (".."); ...
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Cleaning and/or best-practice for floating-point binary/decimal/octal/hex converter
This new code comes from my original converter (without floating-point support): Cleaner and/or more practical code for decimal/binary/hex converter
I've had some trouble implementing floating-point ...
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Create palindrome by rearranging letters of a word
Inspired by a recent question that caught my interest, I wrote a function in Python 3.3 to rearrange the letters of a given string to create a (any!) palindrome:
Count the occurrences of each letter ...
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Scheme/Racket: idiomatic infix math evaluator
Inspired by xkcd and a couple of praising blog posts, I decided to try out Lisp. It seemed that the best-supported dialect was Racket, itself a variant of Scheme, so I went with that and wrote an ...
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Recursive Determinant
The following code I devised to compute a determinant:
module MatrixOps where
determinant :: (Num a, Fractional a) => [[a]] -> a
determinant [[x]] = x
determinant mat =
sum [s*x*(determinant ...
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Cleaner and/or more practical code for decimal/binary/hex converter
I've finally finished my converter and have determined that it works, but I'm trying to make it cleaner and/or more practical (primarily with the switch statements). I could probably put more things ...
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I've finally found a satisfactory way to create classes on JavaScript. Are there any cons to it?
Depending on external OO libraries is really bad, using prototypes/new has some limitations, using only hashes has others. Dealing with classes was always a pain in JavaScript and it didn't help that ...
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Vaadin web application
I am creating a web application for an enterprise and I would like to improve my way of coding, know what I do wrong and what I do well. I'll leave the main class' code here:
package com.puntobile;
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Which is better: the short, clever way, or the long, ctrl+c way?
The code below is equivalent. I can see pros and cons for both versions. Which one is better?
Short version:
character.on("key",function(key){
var action = ({
...
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Playing Card Class - is this right?
The Art and Science of Java, a course book that uses the ACM library has an exercise that reads like this.
Implement a new class called Card that includes the following entries:
• Named ...
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Code review for an abstract repository implementation
I have a repository abstract class that encapsulates pretty much all of the CRUD functionality:
public abstract class DataRepository<T> : IRepository<T>
where T : class
{
public ...
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Which code is better? And why?
I found two ways of writing the same program (one that only uses local variables, but no methods other than the main one) and other that uses one instance variable that is used in two methods.
This ...
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How can I improve this coin flipping code?
I am doing exercises for the Art and Science of Java textbook. I had an exercise that required me to program the simulation of flipping a coin until 3 consecutive "Heads" result appeared.
I did it, ...
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What steps to turn python code into python zen code
My python code is ugly and I'm having difficulty improving it. What kind of steps could be done here to make it. This is an example function that comes from time to time and I can't seem to have a ...
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How to make proper code out of this function
public function getStuff($brand)
{
$web=FALSE;
if($this->getWebcorners()):
foreach ($this->getWebcorners() as $webcorner):
...
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How do I make this code unit-testable?
I have a functionality that imports data into a database, based on an Excel workbook and some meta data (both user-supplied). The functionality implements interface IFunctionality which essentially ...
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Hanoi Towers - need help with the code
I made an algorithm solving Hanoi Tower puzzles, for n disks and m pegs.
It uses lists as pegs, each list's element contains disks array - {0, 0, 0} means the peg is empty, {1, 2, 0} means the peg ...
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Looking for Python code review of database abstraction class
I'd be very thankful if some Python masters would take a look over the following class and review the code. There is no bug(not as far as I know anyway), the code is working as intended. But, since ...
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First time writing MIPS code and was hoping somebody could look at it and help me clean it up (Prime Factors)
The goal of this was to be able to enter any number and print out the prime factors of that number. Are there any shorter ways of writing this code? I'm not very familiar with low-level syntax and was ...
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Haskell markov text generator
I'm new to Haskell, and here is my first not-totally-trivial program. It's the first program I tend to write in any language -- a Markov text generator. I'm wondering what I can change to make it more ...
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Reviewing javascript and tidying up?
This is a follow up to this question my code has evolved since so I'm reposting my question, What is the best way to tidy this up? how can this be refined? I am finding it's thrasing the layout quite ...
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A complex string splitter- How do I make this working code better?
I have the below program
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
List<Assembly> failedAssemblies = LoadAssembly();
string batchFile = ...
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How can I refactor this code in order to not repeat code?
I have this code:
private eFileStatus CheckConfigSettings()
{
mFileStatus = mXMLHelper.CheckElement(eElementName.StartLanguage.ToString(), out mContent);
if (eFileStatus.OK != ...
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What could I have done better?
This is my first real program, though it has gone through a few major revisions. Anyhow, I am sure that there is a lot I could have done better, cleaner or safer.
Can anyone see anything I really ...
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The eternal dilemma: bar.foo() or foo(bar)?
I was using foo(bar) as it's adopted for functional programming.
console.log(
join(
map(function(row){ return row.join(" "); },
tablify(
...
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Could I possibly shorten / clean this up
I'm new to Python, and I'm wondering how I could possibly shorten / clean this up?
def userAnswer(letters):
print("Can you make a word from these letters? "+str(letters)+" :")
x = ...
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Code Tidying up?
What is the best way to tidy up JavaScript code I have written. It seems very long winded, any suggestions to shorten it?
note: I'm running it on Wordpress which runs jQuery in nonconflict mode. ...
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How to apply Sieve of Eratosthenes test into my code [closed]
I have this code that tests prime numbers and I'm trying to make it fast as possible. I know a way but I just can't find how to execute it in to my code. Does any one know how to input in to the code ...
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Simple and efficient code for finding factors and prime factorization?
I've modified this program many times, but I want to know if this is a good way to perform this task. My first algorithm for finding the factors of a number was pretty slow and horrible (started at ...
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Palindrome test in Haskell
I am new to Haskell and, coming from a OO/procedural programming background, I want to make sure my code follows the functional way of doing things. I built this short module to test if a given string ...
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General feedback for my GCD/LCM x86 Intel NASM assembly program
I've already created a similar program in C++ first, and then I decided to try to write it in x86 assembly language (the type of assembly I was taught in college). I've already completed the C++ ...
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Improving Javascript code of a failed test
I just failed in a JavaScript test and I would really appreciate some comments of how I can improve so I can keep learning.
The test was about making a form interactive, where the code should do ...
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Improving Code pointers
I'm new to jQuery and I've been messing about with this code, It works but I want to learn how to shorten the code by the eliminating unnecessary repeated code.
Below is a link to jsFiddle
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Hardware resource Open/Close methods
So I'm making a program that is a serial port wedge. In other words I want it to listen to a serial port. If data comes in, wait a given amount of time, then play a sound and finally send the data ...
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improve the design of class “accuracy” in Python
I am learning about the class and methods in Python.
The class Accuracy is a class of several (13 in total) statistic values between a reference polygon and one or more segmented polygons based on ...
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How can this this URL Checker be made cleaner?
I have a table full of URLs, some of which will occasionally become invalid. As part of a system I'm writing to go through the links periodically, and test if they are valid (or redirect to valid ...
