Skills Poor Programmers Lack
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Skills Poor Programmers Lack
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Re: Skills Poor Programmers Lack
#2This is just an arbitrary collection of a couple of things. A lot of programmers lack a lot of skills.
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#3Skills are nouns, but the list was all verbs. Weird.
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#4> You may have seen code which misunderstands how expressions work:
> if isDelivered and isNotified: isDone = True else: isDone = false;
> Instead of:
> isDone = isDelivered and isNotified
Are people actually finding code like this in professional work or is this just an example? I'm self-taught and know I've got some gaps, but this example is so fundamental I find it shocking.
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#6> You may have seen code which misunderstands how expressions work: > if isDelivered and isNotified: isDone = True else: isDone = false; > Instead of: > isDone = isDelivered and isNotified Are people actually finding code like this in professional work or is this just an example? I'm self-taught and know I've got some gaps, but this example is so fundamental I find it shocking.
Can confirm. Made this mistake myself actually. However to make a contradictory point apart from being better style what are the other advantages of not using if statements and use boolean algebra instead ?
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#7> You may have seen code which misunderstands how expressions work: > if isDelivered and isNotified: isDone = True else: isDone = false; > Instead of: > isDone = isDelivered and isNotified Are people actually finding code like this in professional work or is this just an example? I'm self-taught and know I've got some gaps, but this example is so fundamental I find it shocking.
Oh, yes, I saw stuff like this in Big Blue Company's source control.
At a different company, I found stuff like:
ZERO_INDEX = 0
ONE_INDEX = 1
return arr[ZERO_INDEX]Re: Skills Poor Programmers Lack
#8> You may have seen code which misunderstands how expressions work: > if isDelivered and isNotified: isDone = True else: isDone = false; > Instead of: > isDone = isDelivered and isNotified Are people actually finding code like this in professional work or is this just an example? I'm self-taught and know I've got some gaps, but this example is so fundamental I find it shocking.
Yes.
And a coworker wrote his own string join method in Python (and was mad he wasn’t a senior engineer).
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#9> You may have seen code which misunderstands how expressions work: > if isDelivered and isNotified: isDone = True else: isDone = false; > Instead of: > isDone = isDelivered and isNotified Are people actually finding code like this in professional work or is this just an example? I'm self-taught and know I've got some gaps, but this example is so fundamental I find it shocking.
I see this in professional work. The former reads more like English, and so there feels like there is an argument to be made that it is more readable, and also an argument that "the compiler will optimize it for you anyway".
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#10Kinda frustrating that an article calling out where programmers fall short was a non-responsive document that was almost unreadable on mobile. Mildly ironic?