June 21, 2017Functional programming and testing. Maybe you’ve given them a try in isolation, but somehow you never made either a part of your regular practice. They may sound innocent by themselves, but together testing and functional programming can create an irresistible temptation, almost compelling you to write cleaner, t...
June 22, 2016Isn’t it fun to find a comment in code that’s completely out of place and useless?
It’s an easy mistake to make: you change some code, and forget to remove or update the comment. A bad comment won’t break your code, but imagine what would happen when debugging. You read the comment. It says one...
February 18, 2016When learning to program you’re first introduced to procedural programming; this is where you control a machine by feeding it a sequential list of commands. After you have an understanding of a few language fundamentals like variables, assignment, functions and objects you can cobble together a program that achi...
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