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Comment on How to Learn From Your Programming Mistakes (in 5 Easy Steps) by Woody

Woody — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:27:00 +0000

A very good article.
We all have made and will make mistakes in work projects and/or decisions.
The key to improving is admitting and learning from the mistakes (Item 3).
Best not to make fun of others’ mistakes (Item 5), your turn will come.

Comment on How to Learn From Your Programming Mistakes (in 5 Easy Steps) by codeguy

codeguy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:29:39 +0000

i generally verify results using ones i know to be correct. this takes very little time. also if someone else has coded and tested a similar correctly working segment, have a look at that and adjust it as ya need. i do a lot of visual demos, etc and generally look for artifacts, pass-throughs, etc.

Comment on How to Learn From Your Programming Mistakes (in 5 Easy Steps) by codeguy

codeguy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:26:33 +0000

while i am not a seasoned or paid c++ guru, i can tell you testing and not taking shortcuts are the most valuable things i have learned in programming.

Comment on Doh! by thetune

thetune — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:47:47 +0000

Like in IM-client :-)
“Sorry, not this window”

Comment on How to Learn From Your Programming Mistakes (in 5 Easy Steps) by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:55:51 +0000

Once you have mastered all of the above, you can do what I do: use the rate of mistakes you make to measure the rate of work your getting through. If your a) not that good or b) get tired easily this method will not work for you of course and you will come unstuck. I always make mistakes at a faster rate than anyone else I know. I also generally have an earned value of about 2000% when benchmarked against my colleages.

Comment on Simple Programming | Dynamic Memory in C++ (new and delete) by Faye

Faye — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:46:48 +0000

Yes absolutely – thanks for posting the link. However, this seems to refer to std::auto_ptr, which is deprecated in C++11 (it now uses shared_ptr and unique_ptr).

I’m planning some C++11 articles in the new year, but you’re right that it should really have been mentioned above :-)

Comment on Simple Programming | Dynamic Memory in C++ (new and delete) by Diego Dagum

Diego Dagum — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:08:32 +0000

This is great, Faye. A mention to smart pointers as the recommended way to deal with dynamic memory in C++11 (the latest version) would have been recommended, agree? http://ootips.org/yonat/4dev/smart-pointers.html

Comment on Doh! by metagoto

metagoto — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:26:44 +0000

I bet you think twice before logging in as root now!

Comment on How to Learn From Your Programming Mistakes (in 5 Easy Steps) by Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:45:46 +0000

Very nice article. I intend to write one similar on my blog when I recover from the latest great mistake :)

Comment on Simple Programming | Declaring Variables in Switch Statements by Faye

Faye — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:59:22 +0000

Ah, C++ – just when you think you’ve figured it all out, it throws an anomaly at you!

They are in their own, separate scope, weirdly enough. A single line after an if or else is a conditional statement, and will only be executed if the condition is met. This means that is has its own scope, despite the lack of brackets.

Conversely, the following is also totally legitimate:

int a = 50;

{
int a = 55;
}

No statement at all, just curly brackets. Mad, eh!