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FactChecker reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread When should a beginner programmer learn vims/emacs? with
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A contractor once came to our site to customize a software product we bought. He opened a terminal session and worked quite well using... -
FactChecker replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.All of this depends on the software development environment that you are working in. If strict configuration management principles are...
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Regarding #1, the function's basic purpose likely won't change much, but there is more that should be stated in comments than a brief...
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This isn't a point just against pseudocode; it's a general point against comments in the code that don't get updated when a bug is found...
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FactChecker reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with Like.
The two terms are very close to be used interchangeably, but I would say there is a slight tendency that concurrent programming covers...
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Another point against pseudo code is updates. Often programmers fix a defect and comment about what was wrong and how they fixed it...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.IMO, pseudocode does not necessarily serve the purpose of good documentation. I don't know if there is an official, enforced...
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FactChecker reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with
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We had a rule that THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ANYTHING THAT BREAKS THE BUILD. The punishment was to be handed a scraper and have a go at... -
FactChecker replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.@sysprog1 , Thanks. I stand corrected. And I see in the link you gave that the author has several books on parallel algorithms and...
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FactChecker reacted to sysprog1's post in the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages with
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I found this book very helpful in my student days -- its content is still comp-sci foundational, and by it the applicability of graph... -
FactChecker replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.I once had the job of integrating and testing code inputs from several engineers into flight critical code. I remember one time when a...
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FactChecker reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with Like.
Thinking about the usefulness of mixing pseudo-code with actual code somehow takes me back to the university in the 80's where we had...
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The short answer is "no." I don't know what your coding experience is, but unless one is writing relatively small programs, it can be...
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A similar thing happens to me here at PF. After a couple of years, I get a reply notification to a watched thread, and so read back up...
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I only write very low-level and compact code, so I leave myself notes addressed like "We need to ...", because I will have forgotten...