Questions tagged [technique]
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How can I favor quick (and dirty) over clean (and slow) in practice?
Preface, TL;DR This question is about the implied tradeoff between the speed of development and the quality of code. I am looking for methodologies which can be followed in order to optimize ...
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What is the technical terminology for the practice of checking for null and edge cases in programming?
I took a PHP test for NASA recently and thought I should have done better. I believe the issue is something I used to know about, but need a refresher in. I can't remember what it is called though. It ...
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How can I reduce the amount of storage needed for a gravitational n-body simulation?
I am currently attempting to create a gravitational n-body simulation using a modified Barnes-Hut algorithm, to be more amicable to GPU computation. This is primarily as a learning project. My goal is ...
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Technique to master new (third party) projects [duplicate]
I'm a graduated software developer. In the last year I worked like a sysadmin, nowadays, I entered on a different software company as a VB.Net Developer, it means I need to learn and master a very, ...
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What programming techniques are there to find the combination of inputs that produces the best result? [closed]
I am working with a big set of data right now and I wrote a program that calculates a result based on some inputs. I have 10 inputs, each of them has about 20 different possible values. I am not sure ...
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TDD on an already started project
I am currently implementing my own programming language. Until now I have written: An Error class for errors (to be thrown) encountered while processing the input source code; Some SyntaxError ...
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Is it better to pull all data immediately or as needed?
I have a program that needs information from a database but it doesn't need all of the information at once, although it WILL need it at some point. Would it be better to pull all of the information ...
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Domain analysis for discrete values - ON and OFF points in these cases
Following my previous question (with great answer from Bart van Ingen Schenau), I noticed a discrepancy I could not wrap my head around: Bart mentioned that: The point ON the boundary is by ...
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Domain analysis - why OFF points are inside of the domain when the border is open
I have asked on a few other sites, no response but it must be something silly as many authors mention in their books. Here is the best text I found: My ultimate question is: Why the OFF point lies ...
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What programming technique is this?
I have two Java classes. The first one is called "Index", and the second one, temporarily, I called it "IndexCache": public class IndexCache { private static Map<String, Index> map = null; ...
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Get inspired by real world objects and their interactions [closed]
Based on this question I think while the aim of OOP is not necessarily to copy real world objects, they could be source of inspiration to design a software or solve a problem or even learn the OOP ...
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What is the name of the following (anti) pattern? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Over the last few months, I stumbled a few times over the following technique / pattern. However, I can't seem to find a specific name, nor am I a 100% sure about all its advantages and disadvantages. ...
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Sorting an array of numbers with decimal places
Suppose I have an array of float values in the following format: { 1.34, 1.15, 1.1, 1.2, 1.26, 1.10, 1.20, 1.17 } Suppose they have been provided by user input (or some other mechanism), where the ...
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What concepts/technologies should an ASP.NET developer be familiar with [duplicate]
I am in the process of filing in the gaps in my knowledge so that I can become a better developer. I am an ASP.NET developer and I sometimes need to do pure back-end stuff too. I ahve compiled a list ...
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How can you learn names of methods or classes of a framework or an API?
I've been programming C++ for a year now. I've gone through the language features and I've written good programs with it, so I decided to move on to OpenGL. At first it seemed confusing. As I kept ...
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