A coding style is a set of conventions and practices used in software, such as naming classes, variables, and files.
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Calculate final test score from a list of test results
Recently I have given an interview to a widely well-known technology firm. The first interview was general and it went well but they rejected based on some technical things. They did not mention it so ...
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Field class used by my trading card game
As many may know, I am developing a Trading Card Game for the Coding Challenge.
I have just completed the Field class and have not used it in practice yet, so all ...
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Improving a Haskell FizzBuzz Solution
I wrote a solution to the popularized FizzBuzz problem in Haskell to see how a functional solution looks. I'm more or less happy with my solution, except for the definition of ...
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Creating a better NSLog
So, generally when I write iOS code, I will start with a lot of calls to NSLog, which is a macro that with print the string you send it to the console.
There's a ...
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How could I have approached this responsive image gallery differently?
This gallery uses the Orbit gallery from the Foundation framework (version 3). I've set it up so that on smaller screens it appears as an accordion.
It works just fine, but is there a more concise ...
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Does my input helper class look good?
I'm new to OOP PHP and I created a simple input helper class. And was wondering if it's good? Are my dependencies good?
Also the reason I'm not throwing an exception with the get method is that I ...
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How to write factory classes or functions in JavaScript? [on hold]
I find that in Javascript there are many methods of creating an object so what would be the appropriate approach for constructing an object and why.
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Geometry table for use in regexes
I have been teaching myself Python 3. I watched a video on YouTube entitled "stop writing classes". The Gtable class doesn't even have an init function, so I can't help but wonder if I should have ...
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Printing 80 (or more) times the same character
I want to print a lot of the same characters and I don't want to use a for loop and I'm also looking for a way to do it as less lines as possible. Even better I would like to be able to store that ...
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Printing the most used words from phrases
I have a collection of phrases in a List. Each phrase is a String Array where each element in the array is a word.
I create a ...
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Insertion Sort implementation in Java
I have implemented Insertion sort in Java. Please review it.
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Is my web site structured correctly?
I'm trying to get a better handle of code organization and how HTML5 (really HTML) stack works in general. I've worked mostly with ASP.NET Webforms and done some MVC as well. Let me say now, "I hate ...
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Bash script to convert NIST vectors to debug scripts
TL;DR: The Bash script (below) is converting a published, somewhat-structured text file into a format usable by my testing infrastructure. It's slow, I think it's ugly -- although it is fully ...
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Binary converter and sufficient tests
I just finished writing a basic binary conversion class in Ruby. I'm curious to see if anyone has suggestions for improvements. In particular, I'm looking for the cleanest, shortest, most succinct ...
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Manage XML file with custom XmlFileHandler class
This post is a follow up question.
The purpose of this class should became clear without any further explanation. Raise your hand. If not, then I will have to improve the naming/structure.
I would ...
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Dynamically loading jQuery when it's not available or version isn't high enough
I'm writing a script for others to use on their websites. I'd like to use jQuery in this script. Because I don't have control over what frameworks people use on their sites, I need to make sure jQuery ...
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Cleaning up repeated calls to NSMakeRange()
In Objective-C, many of the NSString or NSMutableString methods for comparing or manipulating strings require a range argument--that is, an argument of data type ...
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Reading data from excel sheet with ExcelDataReader
Objective:
I want to import an excel file, and read the rows of certain columns. For this, I use ExcelDataReader. I implemented a low-level class called ExcelData which uses the ExcelDataReader and ...
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Check if XmlNode with certain attribute exists and create XmlNode if not
I'm not going to explain the purpose of the code provided below. If you do not understand it, i know that i have to improve it (naming, structure etc.).
I would like to know how to improve this code ...
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Flat-file DB with CRUD
I just finished writing a flat-file DB class for PHP which supports selecting, updating, inserting and deleting.
I was wondering if there are any ways to make it faster or if I'm doing anything the ...
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IDisposable Interface for an Server/Client connection client
Here is a class of one of my applications I'm trying to learn writing good code with.
Old Code:
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A Library Class : Point
I am trying to create a library of my own which contains (among others), a class called Point. As the name suggests, it is intended to encapsulate a point ...
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How should I name a mapper or manager?
Recently I was reading a book called Clean Code by Robert C. Martin. There is a chapter called Meaningful Names that started me thinking if I was doing this right. I know there isn't one good way to ...
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How many squares can you see?
With a positive outlook, I posted this challenge at Programming Puzzles & Code Golf. I tried to come up with my own solution to the challenge which is as follows:
The output is displayed (not ...
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My first controller rspec test
I'm just started learning TDD with Rails and RSpec. This is my first test for controller. Just plain RESTful UserController that responds with JSON, so it has no new and edit methods. Please review it
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How can I clean up this hack to scrape paths from a Gruntfile?
As a part of my Tabv Vim plugin (which at this stage is nothing more than a pitiful rag-tag assortment of half-baked hacks), I have a function which attempts to guess the directory paths for main ...
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Console command tool
I have created a little console tool that simply does commands that you enter.
The commands are stored in a txt file. Right now I only got 2 commands: getTime and ...
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Android close running apps
I have developed a service to automatically detect whether an app has started. If the user forbid this app to start (could be chosen from a list of apps), a dialog will be shown.
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Better PHP Ajax Request Processing Structure
I have a server side PHP file which processes Ajax requests from the client browser. Some requests are only valid if they originate from an Administrator in the application, others are only valid if ...
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Split large import task into smaller subtasks
I have a large import task that runs as a cronjob and I want
to split that task in smaller subtasks. Each subtask should be handled by
an own class.
At the cronjob entry point I prepare the ...
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Print out table with start/end temperatures and step size
I am trying to learn C++ by myself. I looked up a sample question after going through some text. Though I would like someone to review my code. I'm basically asking you to break it to show some flaws ...
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Clean, efficient and extensible code for querying collections
I recently wrote code that would query a collection of objects and rank them according to a given criteria and then filter based on an object property. I attach the code below. I would like to know if ...
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Optimizing “simplifier”
Basically, I'm trying to make a Simplifier that can take inputs in the form of a String and print out the solution step-by-step. Now that I've got it working, I ...
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Adding two BigIntegers by putting mutiple digits in a linked list
Based on feedback on an earlier question, I decided to implement the addition of two big ints by putting multiple digits in a node of a linked list. Can somebody take a look at my code and let me know ...
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Optimizing boolean checking method
I have written a method that checks if n number of true booleans are present in a ...
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Script scraper for outputting variables and functions to a text file
I've been programming with Python 2.7 for about six months now and if possible, I'd like some critique to see what I might have done better or what I might be doing wrong.
My objective was to make a ...
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Adding two BigInts using linked lists in C
While trying to learn more about linked lists, I thought I should try the exercise of reading two BigInts from an input file and then adding them up. My strategy was to store the two numbers in two ...
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General practitioner collection
The following code is used to find the usual_gp(General Practitioner) from gpCollection variable of type TreeMap<Long(Date), ...
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'100' is a magic number
Magic numbers are bad. I totally agree. But there's a magic number I find hard to fix:
'100' is a magic number.
Consider this code:
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Linked List implementation and manipulations in C
While trying to learn some more C, I decided to implement a linked list and perform a few operations on it.
The first thing I wanted to do was read from a .csv of numbers (ex: 1,2,3,...) and store ...
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RPSLS is less messy now, but is it clean?
This is a follow up to the following questions:
RPSLS Game in C#
Is my coding technique progressing in terms of C# loops?
I haven't made my way to DecideWinner() ...
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Make LinkedList in C++ more clean
I have been working on a linked list for some while now and started out with this.
Is my code clean? Or is there some way to make it better and more readable?
The reason for this question is for me ...
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Finite Automaton for a Typing Game
I'm creating a game that implements a finite automaton and I don't know if I'm doing it right. Any advice?
Game class
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Proper capitalization for book titles?
I'm working through some exercises to sharpen my Ruby skills. The following code is how I solved this particular question. I'd like to know what other developers think of this solution. I'm self ...
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Importing data from an external EXCEL-Sheet
I was assigned the task of copying some subsums from a given EXCEL-Sheet into the executing EXCEL-Sheet.
This had to be done with an EXCEL-Macro, so non-programmers can easily use it. There was the ...
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Lexical Analyzer: Is this the right way?
I'm doing a lexical analyzer for my programming language and I don't know if I'm doing it right. Can anyone can help me with this or suggest a better way of doing it?
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Tokenizing string using strtok
In this assignment, I'm supposed to split a string using strtok. (The assignment consists of the comment and the function definition; I fill in the function body.)
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Same function but use different array data
I have these two carousels that randomly pick up pictures. [fiddle] Each of them picks up pictures and links from their own different inner array. It works fine as it is, but I was just wondering if ...
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Call to external web service
The architecture is showing a call to an external Web Service which is called by me. Then I will expose the data using WCF to be callable from another WCF client. But I really don't like how it's ...
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Making a word processor
The Word Processor I had in mind would be similar to Microsoft's word and OpenOffice. I am trying to keep my logic separated from the User Interface and that separated from the controller, basically ...
