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Over thinking development
I've been working as an app developer for a year and a half now (not long I know), and I've just been given my first big project. Needless to say it didn't go very smoothly, so I sought advice from a ...
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94votes
14answers
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How can I avoid always feeling like if I completely rebuilt my program from scratch I'd do it much better? [closed]
I have learned a significant amount of coding, however, it's always been in a scientific environment (not computer science), completely self-taught without anyone to guide me in the right direction. ...
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87votes
17answers
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Are my negative internship experiences representative of the real world? [closed]
I'm curious if my current experiences as an intern are representative of actual industry. As background, I'm through the better part of two computing majors and a math major at a major university; I'...
64votes
8answers
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How can I get things right at the beginning of a software project? [closed]
I am programmer with 1 year experience, recently I realized I seldom start a project correctly (most of my side project), normally the project cycle goes like Start with a few use-cases Start coding ...
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52votes
16answers
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Should I take care of race conditions which almost certainly has no chance of occuring?
Let's consider something like a GUI application where main thread is updating the UI almost instantaneously, and some other thread is polling data over the network or something that is guaranteed to ...
31votes
4answers
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How to stop gold-plating and just be content to release working developments [closed]
The development team that I'm a member of has recently adapted to work according to Agile practices. This has personally highlighted the fact that I can't stop myself gold-plating code (and ...
30votes
4answers
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Using #ifdef to switch between different types of behavior during development
Is it a good practice to use #ifdef during development to switch between different types of behavior? For example, I want to change the behavior of existing code, I have several ideas how to change ...
29votes
6answers
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Turning a personal Python project into a releasable library
I'm an academic rather than a programmer, and I have many years' experience writing Python programs for my own use, to support my research. My latest project is likely to be useful to many others as ...
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28votes
2answers
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How to do documentation for code and why is software (often) poorly documented?
There are some good examples of well-documented code out there, such as java api. But, a lot of code in public projects such as git and internal projects of companies is poorly documented and not very ...
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26votes
7answers
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How to convince my teammates to follow some basic rules
I have a problem with my teammates. Long story short: We are three students working at a project for a competition. The project consists of 2 separate applications: one for Windows (that I develop) ...
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18votes
7answers
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How to become a good team player? [closed]
I've been programming (obsessively) since I was 12. I am fairly knowledgeable across the spectrum of languages out there, from assembly, to C++, to Javascript, to Haskell, Lisp, and Qi. But all of ...
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11votes
3answers
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Are XML Comments Necessary Documentation?
I used to be a fan of requiring XML comments for documentation. I've since changed my mind for two main reasons: Like good code, methods should be self-explanatory. In practice, most XML ...
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11votes
1answer
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Slicing up the Development Stack - diagonally?
We've got a new project going on, and at the moment developers have been split into two teams, team A and team B. This project has 2 parts to it which require development throughout the development ...
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4answers
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How to deal with complex codes in (huge) projects
I am preparing a memoir about "Why do (some) IT projects become too complex and how to avoid it ?". If you have ever encountered projects having complex codes or were hard to maintain, how did you ...
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9votes
4answers
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Is it worth developing custom shopping cart? [closed]
We have handsome library of cakephp modules at my workplace, and we develop custom websites at good pace until the shopping cart comes our way to slow down the process. I have used various (Magento, ...
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