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Checking if a method returns false: assign result to temporary variable, or put method invocation directly in conditional?
Is it a good practice to call a method that returns true or false values in an if statement? Something like this: private void VerifyAccount() { if (!ValidateCredentials(txtUser.Text, txtPassword....
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Should function names describe their parameter types?
If you wish to perform the same action using different parameters, you can either make differently named functions: public Apple findAppleById(long id){ return repo.findById(id); } public Apple ...
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MVC Controller - keeping methods small
I'm reading uncle Bob's Clean Code and it completely revolutionizes my programming style. In this book author claims that best methods are small methods. What about controller's action methods in ...
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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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