Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 3:29 PM UTC

abraham wrote: post #29

On the plus side having to manually type all of it will help developers learn it better.

Post by SeamusBrady » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 3:32 PM UTC

frou_dh wrote: post #26

troels wrote: post #22

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Just a few quick observations: The formatting is non-existant. That makes me angry. Because I have OCD. Most programmers do. There's a lot of direct use of DOM traversing, which makes the code rather brittle. (Use a css selector for binding to the DOM - jQuery is the de-facto standard tool here). Variables are not encoded in the URL. And when it is, it happens on a separate line from where it's used. That's just bad…

> That makes me angry. Because I have OCD. Most programmers do. I assume you mean fake, self-diagnosed OCD, then.

Post by wpeterson » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 3:39 PM UTC

Post by nathanwdavis » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 3:45 PM UTC

DrinkWater wrote: post #3

I hope it was an accident/mistake, otherwise it makes Microsoft look ridiculous as fuck.

Post by ward » Wed, Dec 07, 2011, 4:17 PM UTC

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #24

loozapalooza wrote: post #13

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I am learning javascript nowadays. Can you describe, what is wrong with this javascript? So that, I won't learn any bad practice.

I'm not the most savvy javascript developer, but I'll take a stab at it. Variable declarations and assignments happen on multiple lines in the 2nd snippet instead of all being defined at once. var currentLanguage = "en"; var spanish = "es"; var german = "de"; var english = "en"; vs var currentLanguage = "en", spanish = "es", german = "de", english = "en"; Additionally, "en" is assigned twice. If you're going to take…

    var x = 0, y = 1, z = 0;
    // Some looping or similar here