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links for 2010-01-25 « dstelow notes… — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:03:03 +0000

[...] David Develops (Software) » Writing Presentable Code Pt.1 – Properties and Variables discussing coding standards, specifically to synchronise development in two countries and keep the style consistent across the teams. You know, the usual stuff. (tags: dev programming c# guidelines standards) [...]

By: Matthew Hintzen

Matthew Hintzen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:03 +0000

I have only one objection and it is (IMHO) a very logical objection, and that is the usage of the _ anywhere in code and especially for member variables.

I use the “m” for member variables, other than that, I’m in agreement with you. This is a pet peeve of mine, in order to type _ you have to use the two weakest fingers, AND on most Fullsize keyboards you need to take your fingers off the home row.

After a long day of typing (which like you I hate to do) one of the most common typing characters is the hardest to type, and puts the most strain on the weakest fingers of my hands, my RSI is in full painful swing.

you can see my coding standards at http://www.longcloud.co.nz/Blogs/archive/2009/03/14/the-worst-syntactically-naming-convention-in-vogue-today-.aspx

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:31:01 +0000

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By: Stefano Ricciardi

Stefano Ricciardi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:21:36 +0000

I agree with most of the points you mentioned.

Not sure about the underscore for private members. I tend to avoid it and also “this.”. Trying to keep my classes small and cohesive everything should be obvious (yes, that’s not always possible…).

By: Stefano Ricciardi

Stefano Ricciardi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:18:34 +0000

The first is TotalNumberOfStudents and the second is TotalNumberOfTeachers.

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:41:20 +0000

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By: Cris

Cris — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:41 +0000

Very nice article. Could you explain a little more about why you have declared the TotalNumberOfStudents get and set method twice? I understand the second one you are setting a private variable to the class object.

Am a little confused about the double declaration.

Thanks!

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Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #470 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:33:34 +0000

[...] Writing Presentable Code Pt.1 – Properties and Variables – David Whitney discusses his coding style in detail, providing his justifications to certain decisions. This one is probably most useful if you don’t agree with the standards David uses as it provides the reasoning you might need to see why people do do things that way. [...]