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counting identifiers and operators as code size metric
I'm looking for a code metric for monitor and track over time the size of several projects and their components.
Also, I would like to use it for:
evaluate size reduction after refactoring
compare ...
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How do you know where you stopped in your codes after a 2-week break? [closed]
I just had a more than 2-week long vacation/business trip and I couldn't remember actually what was I working in my coding and where I stopped. Could someone recommend a best practice to solve this?
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Should one create shareable private class member or keep variable in method scope to pass it as a second method argument?
Recently I had to refactor some legacy code. As in most cases, I had to split big parts of code into smaller, cleaner and readable functions. I ended with many functions, that had multiple, weird ...
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Is it bad practice to create blocks of code?
In C++, is it bad practice create blocks of code inside some function, such as the following:
bool f()
{
{
double test = 0;
test = // some other variable ...
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Should a loop be nested inside an unchanging conditional?
I was reviewing some old code and stumbled upon a loop nested inside a conditional like this:
std::cin >> number; //number is used elsewhere, so should be preserved
if (number <= 10)
for (...
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Is placing text markers inside of strings bad style? Is there an alternative?
I work with massive strings which need a lot of manipulation.
For example, I might generate a string like this:
Part 1 Boat
Section A Programming
Part 2 Partitioning boats for ...
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Should I be using const more in C++?
There are some things I am pretty strict about, but const has not been one of them.
For example, I might make a local variable that I use three times in a function, that does not get changed, and yet ...
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Practice for returning a value or equivalent variable?
I think it would be easiest to explain what I'm asking with an example.
function getLastNode() {
let current = this.head;
if (current == null) {
// Here, we could either return ...
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Is it considered good practice to always have methods return a value?
Sorry for the terrible title but hopefully these snippets will give you the gist.
Method 1:
class Person:
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def set_name(self, new_name):
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When is it appropriate to make a separate function when there will only ever be a single call to said function? [duplicate]
We are designing coding standards, and are having disagreements as to if it is ever appropriate to break code out into separate functions within a class, when those functions will only ever be called ...
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Refactoring previous intern's noodle code with future interns in mind [duplicate]
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I've run across this problem as I am currently an intern at a large company's local software division. I have been given the task of extending a project that several previous interns have ...
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articles in variable names and hard-coding strings
re-edited by author: no this is not 2 questions. This is one question about code review questions containing two separate points. Please do not edit my question.
For naming variables, the two sides ...
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Why do most of us use 'i' as a loop counter variable?
Has anyone thought about why so many of us repeat this same pattern using the same variable names?
for (int i = 0; i < foo; i++) {
// ...
}
It seems most code I've ever looked at uses i, j, k ...