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What coding mnemonics do you use?
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Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#22LoVe HAte when ordering psudeo classes in css for anchors*
":link, :visited, :hover, :active"
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#23You might try a visual trick. Note that look like "arrows" and "point" in a particular direction. There is a small end (the tip/point) and a large end (the open end). The vertical size of the point is "less than" the vertical size of open end. So if the point comes first (reading left to right) then the point is "less than" the opening (and the symbol means "less than"), but if the opening comes first (reading left t…
I'm not convinced programmers even need a mnemonic for . After all, they'll read and write those glyphs millions of times in their lifetime.
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#24are pretty easy. The big side (the mouth) points to the larger number because that it what it wants to eat.
I learned this in school. Still effective.
But I never know which one is "smaller than" or "bigger than", I have to think a little bit
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#25Not related to programming but close
The symbol for a diode is something like this: --|>|--
Now, which one is the Anode, which one is the Cathode
Very simple, the Anode has an A in the drawing (left side, turned 90 degrees), the Cathode (K) has a K, right side, upside down in the drawing
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#26You might try a visual trick. Note that look like "arrows" and "point" in a particular direction. There is a small end (the tip/point) and a large end (the open end). The vertical size of the point is "less than" the vertical size of open end. So if the point comes first (reading left to right) then the point is "less than" the opening (and the symbol means "less than"), but if the opening comes first (reading left t…
I'm not convinced programmers even need a mnemonic for . After all, they'll read and write those glyphs millions of times in their lifetime.
At least for me, the metaphors that I used to learn the symbols as a child have become my enduring mental models of those constructions, even if they're not actually needed to recall them any more.
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#27I never remember that . = class and # = id in CSS, so I use "say no to drugs" to remember that "hash is not class". Perhaps a mnemonic which only really works in the North East of the UK where 'class' is colloquial slang for 'good'. Also not very good if you smoke pot, I guess.
Just remember that a hashtag points to something specific. A dot means nothing, so that's the least specific/most generic thing
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#28The fact that programmers can't remember well illustrates why children shouldn't be chastised for getting (for example) b and d wrong.
I have dealt with this by conditioning myself to always read < as 'is less than'
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#29You might try a visual trick. Note that look like "arrows" and "point" in a particular direction. There is a small end (the tip/point) and a large end (the open end). The vertical size of the point is "less than" the vertical size of open end. So if the point comes first (reading left to right) then the point is "less than" the opening (and the symbol means "less than"), but if the opening comes first (reading left t…
Imagine the arrows are crocodiles. They always try and eat more. 1 4 > 1 If they're eating less, they're not happy crocodiles.
Or maybe as snork-eater-eaters
http://wharble.com/sites/default/files/Snork-Eater_Eater.jpg
Re: What coding mnemonics do you use?
#30LoVe HAte when ordering psudeo classes in css for anchors* ":link, :visited, :hover, :active" *may not be particularly weird or novel
I heard "Las Vegas Hells Angels" and it's stuck with me.