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I have been working on, testing, developing, breaking, engineering, architecting, designing, and creating software for over twenty years. Seven and a half of them have been professional years. I have been in school, participating in Computer Science related activities for seven of my twenty years. I have ready thousands of books, essays, tutorials, forums, blog posts, and reports on various

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Code CompleteOnce again I'm referring to Code Complete. Code Complete taught me a lot of things and coding style is one of those that I hold important to this day. Let me preface this by stating that Code Complete was built around C++ and later C# coding, still I believe that utilizing coding style that is indicative of scope and usage makes programs more maintainable. I also believe that more

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Code CompleteSeveral months ago I finished reading Steve McConnell's Code Complete 2nd Edition. I learned a lot from it and took notes. Some of what the book contained were methodologies that I already knew and used on a daily basis. Other parts of the book opened my eyes to a higher road in programming. My goal in reading the book was to become a better programmer, a better program designer or

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For six years now I have served my time as an IT professional in the Quality Assurance sector. Over that period of time I have tested a wide variety of systems from desktop applications to video games, and from web sites to embedded wifi networked systems. All of these systems required a different means to test them effectively. In each system the same mindset (detail-oriented) was employed, but

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As I program more and more the quantity of files, classes, enumerations, structs, and fields increases dramatically. With that increase comes the ever increasing possibility of defects. When I am programming I try to follow a set of guidelines known as a programming style guide. Style guides help us to be consistent in whatever we're doing. It is probably more common for style guides to be used

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As I continually program throughout my career and daily life, I come across the problem often that there are simply too many ways to program a system. The other problem is that there really isn't much of a correct way to program any specific system. It seems that the means to an end often involves trends. To clarify, I have been trying to program a decent text-based calculator for some time now.

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A while back I determined that I wanted an easy to use text-mode calculator that could perform all of the calculations I required in my job as a web programmer. Often these are simple arithmetic. As I set out to write my first calculator that was more than a simple GUI with buttons to click, I began asking questions about the best method to use in the process. I already knew about postfix

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