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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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How important is it to pick the best IDE for your programming language of choice?
How important is it to pick the best IDE for your programming language? In my personal opinion, it is very important. With a good code parser, it can greatly speed up programming. With auto-compl …
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Is it a bad practice to use GUI designer tools with code generation for application programm...
For a big and medium project, they should not be used, because the code they generate is not very nice to maintain. Unless you don't plan to clean up the code generated by a GUI designer, you are bett …
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if/else statements or exceptions
The usual way of error handling is this: If you can solve the problem locally, then use the if statement (or if the function throw an exception, handle that exception). If you can not solve the probl …
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How to let teammates know what changes I made to an object?
Now, how can I notify my teammates that my object had more attributes that they can set? Well, you shouldn't inform your teammates about every little thing you make. Otherwise, you'd have to sen …
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Should injecting dependencies be done in the ctor or per method?
There are various kinds of inversion of control, and your question proposes only two (you can also use factory to inject dependency). The answer is : it depends on the need. Sometimes it is better to …
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Why is C++ backward compatibility important / necessary?
Are there conceptual reasons or technical problems (e.g. compiling existing templates) that make such a change undesirable or even impossible? Some features are deprecated, and you get a warning …
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Setting global parameters: is this a reasonable use of const_cast and volatile?
It is not only unreasonable, it is forbidden by the standard to modify a const variable. [dcl.type.cv]/4 tells (emphasize mine) : Except that any class member declared mutable (7.1.1) can be modi …
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How can I avoid always feeling like if I completely rebuilt my program from scratch I'd do i...
How can I avoid always feeling like if I completely rebuilt my program from scratch I'd do it much better? What you could do is to create a throwaway prototype, before start doing the "real" proj …
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Should a method do one thing and be good at it?
To quote Clean Code, on the page 36, it says: So, another way to know that a function is doing more than "one thing" is if you can extract another function from it with a name that is not merely a …
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Is it bad practice to supply command line arguments for unit tests
Sorry to say, but that is the worst idea I heard today, for several reasons: anyone who executes unit tests, has to pass correct parameter at correct position, otherwise the unit tests are going to …
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Is throwing an exception an anti-pattern here?
Yes, your colleague is right: that is bad code. If an error can be handled locally, then it should be handled immediately. An exception should not be thrown and then handled immediately. This is much …
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