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Are too many if-else statements for validation bad? [duplicate]
From the book Professional Enterprise .Net, which has 5 star rating on Amazon that I am doubting after having a read through. Here is a Borrower class (In C# but it's pretty basic; anyone can ...
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3answers
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Code review if nobody in team has knowledge in some technology?
Sample situation: A team of Java developers starts an iOS project. Only one developer has Objective-C/iOS knowledge, and in the beginning he will work on this project alone.
How we can perform code ...
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1answer
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Really bad example projects that use sonar [closed]
When consideringen whether to use sonar or not, it would be great to see both good code as well as bad code that use sonar for static code analysis.
I have browsed http://nemo.sonarsource.org/ ...
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5answers
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Is this pattern bad? [duplicate]
I notice that when I code I often use a pattern that calls a class method and that method will call a number of private functions in the same class to do the work. The private functions do one thing ...
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3answers
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HTML code in Java class
A conceptual question, I tried to google but couldn't find any definitive answers, so here it goes:
Is it a good practice to write Java methods to return HTML strings that will be returned to the ...
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1answer
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Is there a modern replacement for a mutation testing tool like Jester for Java?
“Why just think your tests are good when you can know for sure?
Sometimes Jester tells me my tests are airtight, but sometimes the
changes it finds come as a bolt out of the blue. Highly ...
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2answers
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@Deprecated as of version x.y in JavaDoc
This question & its answers are useful but not sufficient for my problem.
My Question is if I want to add a javadoc as @Deprecated As of version x.y, replaced by {@link SomeClass} in my current ...
3
votes
1answer
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Why Doesn't Java Allow Default Parameters/Arguments [closed]
Basically something like
public void jumpToRoom(String roomName = Rooms.DEFAULT_ROOM)
would be convenient.
Many languages nowadays seem to support it (Ruby, PHP, even C#).
What is Java's ...
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10answers
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When does “proper” programming no longer matter?
I've been building an android game in my spare time. It's using the libgdx library so quite a bit of the heavy lifting is done for me.
While developing, I carelessly selected datatypes for some ...
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2answers
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What is the best approach for inline code comments?
We are doing some refactoring to a 20 years old legacy codebase, and I'm having a discussion with my colleague about the comments format in the code (plsql, java).
There is no a default format for ...
4
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1answer
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Distinguishing repetitive code with the same implementation
Given this sample code
import java.util.ArrayList;
import blackjack.model.items.Card;
public class BlackJackPlayer extends Player {
private double bet;
private Hand hand01 = new Hand();
...
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11answers
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Why is using System.out.println() so bad? [closed]
Of course, it is very good use to use a logging framework for the error messages or warnings. But sometimes I use System.out.println() if I want to try something new in a short time.
Is it really so ...
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4answers
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Is 'Protection' an acceptable Java class name
This comes from a closed thread at stack overflow, where there are already some useful answers, though a commenter suggested I post here. I hope this is ok!
I'm trying my best to write good ...
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5answers
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Is it bad coding practice to create something in a get if it does not exist?
So I have a webservice that has something like a getAccount where it would return an identifier to the account if it got it, else throw an exception. The client will always want to create an account ...
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5answers
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Is use of finally clause for doing work after return bad style/dangerous?
As part of writing an Iterator, I found myself writing the following piece of code (stripping error handling)
public T next() {
try {
return next;
} finally {
next = ...
