@Corbin Absolutely, since programming languages are our stock in trade, have some rudimentary understanding of their mathematical underpinnings it really important.
I am new to programming as well as this site. I am learning Java as my first programming language. I have written a bit of code (of course after struggling a lot). I would love to read expert reviews on this code and suggestions to improve right from naming conventions to logic. I am curious to k...
@Donald.McLean Yeah. And even just from a computational perspective. It definitely gives a very valuable perspective on the limitations and abilities of computers, and a lot of the fundamental ideas of computer science. It's a bit mind blowing when you realize everything can be transformed into a language problem.
@Malachi: All I can really do is some basic to intermediate C++ and C, and some x86 assembly. I have taken intro classes in JS/HTML and VB.NET, but I don't remember anything from them. As I understand C++ the most (out of everything else here), that's all I can review, hence my rep amount. I hope to add Java to that by the time I graduate.
@Jamal but you know more about Programming concepts and design and etc than I do. our classes were all over the place. I wish I would have went for a 4 year programming degree, and I wish I would have done it straight out of Highschool or middle school. I was smart enough to
@Malachi A real school will teach surprisingly little software development skills. Algorithms, formal languages, database systems, etc all touch on programming a lot, but at the end of the day, CS degrees aren't meant to be software engr degrees. (I'm assuming you mean a CS degree and not SE)
Well, I'm also lacking with algorithms. For instance, I've never implemented a sorting algorithm by myself (except for bubble sort). It's not that I can't do it, but it's because I'd rather make "fun" programs, like I'm doing now. But I know I have to learn my craft better.
@Corbin I just don't feel that I learned enough. I feel overwhelmed when I think about what I need to do to create a moderate program. not overwhelmed but ... defeated? what is the word that I am looking for.
hmmm, very interesting. did you have an algorithms class?
@Malachi Eh, I think in a lot of ways, the only real way to learn software development is to develop software and very frequently revisit old stuff for learning purposes.
@ChrisW ah yeah, that's what i essentially do. i think very few people refactor for the hell of it. by "evolve it" I thought you meant "slowly refactor all of it" :)
SFAIK that's the only way in which large programs come into being: they start small, and evolve. "Every large system that works evolved from a smaller system that worked." You can't write a large system that works, from scratch.
It's both long, repetitive, and hard to follow.
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Someone in chat said earlier today that they only trust programmers who have maintained someone else's code. I thought of saying ditto for maintaining your own code: contrast with contractors who write stuff that works today and then leave.
I have a Backbone.Collection which has some models in it. Each model has a boolean property called 'special.' Only one model should be special at any given time.
I've got the following to enforce this, but I'm wondering if it could be clearer or if there is a more appropriate way to enforce such...
Haha I feel like inheriting someone else's code as your responsibility is a rite of passage for programmers
the contractor situation is weird to me. the company i work for does some work with contracts and it all goes to shit right after they get paid.... it makes no sense why they keep contracting
TI-BASIC, 137 - (25 + 50 + 10 + 100) = -48
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Input handles numbers up to 1E99 and automatically evaluates. Can handle expressions.
Although it is an insanely...
best answer for this question I think. using a calculator language to write a code golf answer for adding numbers together. so cool! — Malachi44 secs ago
This is a review site, so the questions should be voted on whether or not they are on-topic and if they clearly portrayed their code so that it could be reviewed.
If a question has 4 answers, yes, it may be badly written code, but it still works and shows signs it can be improved. All the answe...
@ChrisW they'd never go for that. unfortunately it's a rather backwards company with regards to understanding that code quality matters....
All they care is what brand name is smacked on it....
They have "oh it costs a shit ton of money?! it must be amazing!!!" syndrome. They hire contractors all the time to do stuff that makes no sense to contract out. Trying to convince them that they're making a mistake is very losing battle.
Trying to compile a C program using Visual Studio 2013 and an attempt to run the example code given has yielded an error. I understand that the error message is related to pointers which are not accessible or legally allowed to be modified.
The error crops up in strcpy.
#include <stdio.h>
#defi...
Don't you love how you can have a hidden weapon in chat? The reputation, of course. (You need like 999k though) You just post four lines, and there it is.
Software Engineering without some kind of project(s) is a rather odd situation to me. Like a math class where you only listen to lectures and don't have any tests, quizzes or homework. Whatever works though, I suppose.
If he's not a mod, unlike his brother Community, I don't think you have anything to fear.
@Corbin: There will be projects, but no straight code-writing. I'll know more as the semester progresses. There is a software engineering CS project class, which I will take as well.
Eh C++ to Java shouldn't be too bad. I've had to use Java for a few classes before. Once you learn it's quirks, it's relatively similar in syntax to C++.
OO theory is language agnostic. I guess it is a bit jarring though to get thrown into the world of basically only classes when the C++ standard lib is a mixture of a lot of stuff.
@Corbin I've only recently seen contractor-written code, for the first time. No, I was thinking back to when I was the most senior developer at a company: we'd hire new employees, but if they ever left I might be asked/expected to maintain their code. So I'd do code reviews of code written by new employees, until they were writing code that I would consider maintainable.
@ChrisW Ah yeah. We've only had 1 new hire since I've been there, and we had to let them go after a few weeks. Definitely sounds like a good idea though. At the moment though, there's only 3 of us on the team, and luckily everything that comes through is at least semi maintainable.
@Corbin: I will miss using the STL, but learning another language will be worth it. I can't wait to post my first CR question about Java. No, it probably won't be Hello, World...
If your employer has "maintainable" as one of their requirements, a design/code review is IMO the right acceptance test for that requirement. I don't know what the contractors or contracting company would think of that.
@ChrisW I'm moving to company with a few thousand software developers in a few months, so I'm curious to see how it's run there. I suspect it will be like night and day compared to our tiny team.
@Jamal Yeah, I always miss the standard library when using Java :(. The C++ stuff just seems so much more intuitive and natural. Java's stuff just feels clunky and awkward. It might just be because I'm way more comfortable with C++ than Java though. I'm sure a Java person would be saying the exact same thing about C++.
@Corbin Perhaps you'll be working with a team of, at most, 30 developers; maybe fewer. I presumable they have"architects" who decompose their software into manageable/defined components/teams. You (as an individual) don't have time to communicate with thousands of other developers: therefore "Conway's law".
Of course. Teams are usually 5-15 people at the new place. I just think it'll be interesting to see a more formal process. With just 3 of us, there's a lot of formalities that we don't bother with that we should.
@Jamal C++ didn't exist when I was at school. When I was about 10, I read a COBOL book from the public library, and thought that, maybe one day I'd work for a company big enough to own a computer. So yeah. I started learning C++ from people on an predecessor of SE, i.e. a Compuserve forum. We read/studied one chapter of Thinking in C++ per week, and the old hands chatted to answer whatever questions we students had about it. I used that time to evolve my programming from C.
("students" in the sense that I was already professional/working programmer, but learning something new)
@Corbin I hope you find it worthwhile. My first job, 2 years, was at the Canadian equivalent of Bell Labs: they knew what they were doing, how to manage software development; thousands of developers, "carrier grade" software. Later when I worked for a startup, they (i.e. he, the boss) didn't (know much about software development) so I had to (try to).
Hopefully. I think I'll like it more than where I am now, but who knows for sure. I've yet to hear many bad things about them, and they seem to have a good grasp of their techologies. If start ups are like I think they are, I'm fairly certain they would drive me insane ;)
I was hoping to find good management again at my last (most recent ex-) employer: a big company. IMO they had more money than sense though. They grew by buying small companies / existing teams, but didn't seem to add much value (management / process improvement / personnel development) to the teams they bought.
Some startups are OK. The one before last that I worked for was a spin-off from Bell and had experienced middle managers. Their failure was more on the sales/business side of things, I think.
I have design this database diagram to real estate property management just I want to see if I get it right especially the relation between properties and finances because I made it one(property) to many(finances"bank loans")?
@ChrisW interesting. I've always had a weird feeling towards start-ups. I feel like they often fall into a trap of a decent idea and a horrible execute. I have just about 0 real-world experience other than my current (part time, college) job though, so maybe just a weird bias I have.
It's both long, repetitive, and hard to follow.
private void Map(object x, JToken json)
{
var objType = x.GetType();
var props = objType.GetProperties().Where(p => p.CanWrite).ToList();
foreach (var prop in props)
{
var type = prop.PropertyTyp...
TI-BASIC, 137 - (25 + 50 + 10 + 100) = -48
Input A:Disp cumSum(randIntNoRep(1,A))→L₁:"?:For(A,1,dim(L₁:Ans+sub("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",L₁(A),1:End:Disp sub(Ans,2,length(Ans)-1
Input handles numbers up to 1E99 and automatically evaluates. Can handle expressions.
Although it is an insanely...
This is a review site, so the questions should be voted on whether or not they are on-topic and if they clearly portrayed their code so that it could be reviewed.
If a question has 4 answers, yes, it may be badly written code, but it still works and shows signs it can be improved. All the answe...
Trying to compile a C program using Visual Studio 2013 and an attempt to run the example code given has yielded an error. I understand that the error message is related to pointers which are not accessible or legally allowed to be modified.
The error crops up in strcpy.
#include <stdio.h>
#defi...
I have design this database diagram to real estate property management just I want to see if I get it right especially the relation between properties and finances because I made it one(property) to many(finances"bank loans")?
