Programming Practices are the commonly or not so commonly used practices in development of software. These can include things like Agile Development, Kanban, Coding shortcuts, etc.
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Should a variable name be changed if its purpose changes?
I'll change my personal code often and not worry about going back and changing the associated variable names.
Should variable names be maintained in case of meaning changes?
var accountCurrentValue ...
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Setting global parameters: is this a reasonable use of const_cast and volatile?
I have a program that I run repeatedly with various parameter sets. Different parameters are used in different parts of the program (including different source files). The same parameter may also be ...
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Is there a benefit of compiling your code as you go along?
I recently had a job interview in which they gave me an hour to write some real code. It wasn't a huge amount, probably less than 100 lines. After about 45 minutes, I compiled, ran it, and got it to ...
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what should be the approach to solving problem? [on hold]
when working on any project.If someone needs to make the changes in existing functionality then what should be the approach to make the changes in project?
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Code Example to illustrate how to Limit a class's dependencies (entities that depend on a class) [on hold]
I was referring to best practices article on the guides repository which is maintained by Thoughtbot.
One of their best practices under Object Oriented Design says -
Limit an object's ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a virtual screen splitter? [on hold]
What is the scope of a virtual screen splitter? What are its functional and non-functional requirements?
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Why is the “app” folder now a (more) common pattern in web projects?
It might be related to the Yeoman project, or they might have adopted this from somewhere else, but it seems to be the default for all of their generators. Aside from Yeoman generators I've also ...
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Determine Programming Language Used for Project Based on Source Code
Is there an easy way to determine which programming languages were used in a project assuming you have access to the source code?
I have been programming for quite some time, so I can recognize most ...
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Programming Interview Question [duplicate]
I have an upcoming interview in a couple of days and had a question for you guys.
I've heard that programming interviews have whiteboard problems where you solve a simple problem on a whiteboard.
My ...
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Interview Preparation for Amazon [duplicate]
I have an upcoming interview with amazon. Can anyone please suggest me any book/website which can help me in preparation.
Thanks
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Can TDD help me develop a CUDA version of image/video processing algorithms? [closed]
I have tried many ways to migrate the image/video processing algorithm I have to run on GPU using CUDA framework and made a little progress. From reading around Stack Overflow I found a lot of ...
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What is decoupling and what development areas can it apply to? [closed]
I recently noticed decoupling as a topic in a question, and want to know what it is and where it can apply.
By "where can it apply", I mean:
Is it only relevant where compiled languages like C and ...
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Can decoupling hurt maintainability in certain situations?
Can the fact that the business logic is mapped to interfaces instead of implementations actually hinder the maintenance of the application in certain situations?
A naive example with the Java's ...
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Your thoughts on Best Practices for Scientific Computing? [closed]
A recent paper by Wilson et al (2014) pointed out 24 Best Practices for scientific programming. It's worth to have a look. I would like to hear opinions about these points from experienced programmers ...
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Software development based on a reference implementation [closed]
Lets say I have library "A2" as a dependency in a project. Library "A2" is derived from library "A1"(A2 is a fork of A1 with some modifications to the original source code) where someone has done few ...
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Callbacks: when to return value, and when to modify parameter?
When writing a callback, when is best to have the callback return a value, and when is it best to have the callback modify a parameter? Is there a difference?
For example, if we wanted to grab a list ...
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Storing a looong lookup table
Background
The product i am working on has a very long lookup-table. the table contains static data and cannot be auto generated. there are about 500 rows and 10 columns. columns have mostly integers ...
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Should one always know what an API is doing just by looking at the code?
Recently I have been developing my own API and with that invested interest in API design I have been keenly interested how I can improve my API design.
One aspect that has come up a couple times is ...
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Is it good to review programs with seniors and boss even if it is working fine?
In my company, before delivery of any project, my boss asks my seniors to review programs written by me or other team members or sometimes boss also sits with us for review.
I think it is a good way ...
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One method with many behaviours or many methods
This question is quite general and not related to a specific language, but more to coding best practices.
Recently, I've been developing a feature for my app that is requested in many cases with ...
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Conception and design before coding: how much is this true? [closed]
I learned at school as well as I read everywhere else that a good development methodology needs conception and design before coding properly.
That is not a new information even for a beginner ...
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Why don't we completely de-couple frontend JS frameworks and backend APIs? [closed]
Whenever we implement a frontend framework in the likes of Backbone, AngularJS etc. there's an integration process involved with the backend technologies like NodeJS, Rails, Yii etc. (like setting up ...
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How to efficiently troubleshoot or test new code when hardware setup to reproduce bugs is difficult or impossible to obtain?
I work at a mid-sized company (150ish employees, ~10 size engineering team), and most of my projects involve interfacing with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, optical spectrum analyzers, etc) for the ...
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Strategies to manage multiple clients able to simultaneously edit same data
How can I deal with situations when multiple clients might edit same object at the same time?
For example, I have a web app with admin console, which lets you edit profile data. Several users want to ...
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ASP.NET deployment/maintenance best practices
I have been in the web development industry for around 5 years now, always working in an open source environment. Mostly apache, mysql, and php with a little bit of ruby, using git for version ...
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Wrapping a map with instance or static method
I have a java.util.Map<String, Object> object which different types of values in it. I don't want to cast whereever I do a get operation over this. To do this, I created different classes ...
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What is the best way to track database changes across a large team
What is the best way to track any change made to the SQL Server database before moving to production in case of a large team ?
We have used excel sheets but quite often things get missed which come ...
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Is it okay to not completely understand code functionality? [duplicate]
As I am currently struggling with learning WCF for a project at work, for the past several days I have been looking at online tutorials and examples on the best way to make a WCF client; and today, ...
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Utility Functions Best Practices [closed]
Update: Most answers are about how to write a wrapping interface or what is a good wrapper around ADO. but my question is more about when to do so and when not.
I never found a good rule for deciding ...
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Methods for structuring JavaScript SDKs
I've built a REST API and have been using Backbone models throughout a couple different applications to communicate to it.
I would really like to build a single JS SDK that can be used in any ...
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Beyond Object Oriented Programming [closed]
Is there something beyond OOP? In today's world, almost any problem can be solved with OOP as the basis. But how many of them are really effective? For example, Java is purely Object Oriented. It ...
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Implementing Generic Routines [closed]
Is it possible to implement generic routines in any language (C#, Java, etc). By generic routines I mean, in specific event Handlers. Lets say, I have 2 Buttons and 2 text boxes. One Button, when ...
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Progressive Enhancement vs. Single Page Apps
I just got back from a conference in Boston called An Event Apart.
A really popular theme amongst the speakers was the idea of progressive enhancement - a site's content should go in the HTML, and ...
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How to handle long method names in sequence diagram?
I have a C# application that is developed with VS 2010 pro. The ultimate version would have a sequence diagram feature.
Since I will "create" my sequence diagram manually, how do I deal with quite ...
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Is it Mobile Hybrid or alternate language development development an attempt to fit an “Square peg in a round hole”? [closed]
Recently I noticed that in the mobile world "new languages" are arising trying to fit in as if they were native like Xamarin, RubyMotion, CodenameOne, Javascript/HTML5 Frameworks etc.
And from my ...
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Eventual consistency in Banking systems
I keep hearing people say Banking systems like ATM use Eventual consistency model for data synchronization, but I am wondering if it is true.
Definitely the amount you withdraw might be delayed ...
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Offensive Variable Names [closed]
Everyone knows that all manner of obscenities are included in commits and comments, but is it ever a good idea to have 'offensive' words in the actual code?
The best argument I can think of is: when ...
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Best way to indicate more results available
We have a service to return messages. We want to limit the number returned, either allowing the caller to specify the max number to return, or else to use an internal hard limit. We also have thought ...
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How to deal with interactions between many objects
I've been working on a game in my spare time. I'm pretty much done defining the primitives and until today everything was pretty well segmented and encapsulated but now it's come time to implement ...
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equivalence in callback and non-callback javascript
I'm pretty sure that the following two snippets are equivalent but I wanted to double check:
CALLBACK STYLE
function foo(input, callback) {
// do stuff with input
callback();
}
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Does it make sense to choose UTF-32, based on concern that some basic rule will be broken for UTF-8?
I'm working on an cross platform C++ project, which doesn't consider unicode, and need change to support unicode.
There is following two choices, and I need to decide which one to choose.
Using ...
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How to plan for multi-platform application development [closed]
In my earlier days of programming, I was using Visual Basic for learning. It taught me many concepts, and I was able to make some cool programs (in my opinion, anyways...). I have expanded my horizon ...
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Automating form error handling
I'm not sure if I'm being clever or making things more difficult. I'm working within a custom MVC framework, and within some of my "views" which contain forms I'm preserving input and styling errors ...
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Is it fine to reuse a class instance?
I ask in terms of high cost classes, with a particle engine as an example.
I read somewhere that an instance of a class with a high cost to initialize, like a particle manager, should have its state ...
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Should refactoring be the exception or the rule? [closed]
I had a discussion with a co-worker yesterday about design philosophy. The other coder is more experienced then me, and I fully admit that he is likely much better at properly automating his testing, ...
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ID properties on Domain objects in DDD
In my domain I have an Account object.
e.g.
class Account
{
public string Number;
public string SortCode;
}
Within the context of DDD, should this account object have an ID property? The ...
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What are the advantages of recursion compared to iteration? [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand when is preferred to use recursion rather than iteration.
Actually I've encountered recursion only in Javascript but never in Python. I imagine that recursion should be used ...
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Is it really possible to have libraries not depend on other libraries?
I often see the advice that you should try to make each library independent. And yet in reality I can never seem to achieve this. Is this BS advice or is it actually possibly in any realistic way?
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When is it suitable to use inheritance [duplicate]
I recently had a small "argument" about inheritance with a friend. I think people overuse it a lot. Intuition tells me that that the only good reason for class inheritance is polymorphism - when there ...
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What are arguments against using articles in method name? [closed]
I want to use articles in method names sometimes. Like some service method 'getStudentsOfATeacher()'. What are arguments against that?
