ShakyJake
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Our application? Entire methods are wrapped in try/catch blocks (oh, and these methods are often dozens of lines).
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On one of the projects I'm on it is against the Checkstyles to have multiple returns in any method. Yes it is actually illegal and yes warnings will alarm in the build. So we have literally 300 line try/catch blocks simply because you need to catch and deal with the exception and set whatever the fuck bean you're supposed to return to null so it goes down the final line of return whateverTheFuck; It is the most ass backwards bullshit in the universe.Our application? Entire methods are wrapped in try/catch blocks (oh, and these methods are often dozens of lines).
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It's called the SESE principle, an outdated concept(single entrance single exit). It comes from old languages with explicit resource management.
The original benefit, one of them, was to avoid developers exiting the method earlier and leaving memory leaks behind. On modern day languages, this is outdated as the resources are cleared automatically. Nowadays readability win over these old practices. Now if you are using explicit resource management, it is not a bad idea to do SESE, since that means you can guarantee you are not leaving memory leaks behind.
The original benefit, one of them, was to avoid developers exiting the method earlier and leaving memory leaks behind. On modern day languages, this is outdated as the resources are cleared automatically. Nowadays readability win over these old practices. Now if you are using explicit resource management, it is not a bad idea to do SESE, since that means you can guarantee you are not leaving memory leaks behind.
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Nowadays its just a testability requirement.
Edit: 1 ("Answered") and 2nd response are good
language agnostic - Should a function have only one return statement? - Stack Overflow
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I bought this book:
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship: Robert C. Martin: 9780132350884: Amazon.com: Books
because it's been a couple years since I've read a 'programming' book.
After spending a small amount of time reading it I feel like it'll either have things I already know and agree with, or things in it that I disagree with. Any interest in me posting the things I disagree with in here to elicit some arguments to change my mind?
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship: Robert C. Martin: 9780132350884: Amazon.com: Books
because it's been a couple years since I've read a 'programming' book.
After spending a small amount of time reading it I feel like it'll either have things I already know and agree with, or things in it that I disagree with. Any interest in me posting the things I disagree with in here to elicit some arguments to change my mind?
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Thanks @ you and Lend. I actually didn't know the history why anyone would ever conceive it to be a good idea since I've always been a high level programmer.
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I have a problem with using the word Sprint when it comes to do with anything related to coding. I know this is a mindset but my mind translates "Sprint" into "Rush" and ends up with shit like late night bug-offs to meet a deadline that might not have been achievable in the first place (I saw this way too often when I was a Release Manager). Methodologies have their place but too often I feel their only use is to give people with no discernible development skills a way to make money off the development community by fast-talking a bottle of snake-oil.
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I bought it blindly when someone recommended it and I saw it had good reviews, it wasn't till I opened it that I saw agile and was a little disappointed.
I feel like agile (And other 'how to write software' techniques) gets a worse reputation than it deserves because of the people being proponents of it. Awkward comparison: It's like the gym rats who are small but swear by a given vascularizer (ex:Amazon.com: BSN N.O.-XPLODE 2.0 - Blue Raz, 2.48 lb (50 Servings): Health Personal Care) or other supplement. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, but the incredible focus on it combined with poor results from the person puts people off to whatever idea they're pushing.
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I feel like AGILE/SCRUM proponents here are like the goddamn crossfitters. They never shut the hell up about it.
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I am thinking on doing this degree at this place:Online IT Security Degree | Information Security Degree | WGU College of Information Technology
Is this a shitty diploma mill that anyone has heard of? I don't "need" a degree but with a lot of their classes being directly related to industry certs I figured why not.
Any time I read "capstone" though I think diploma mill.
Is this a shitty diploma mill that anyone has heard of? I don't "need" a degree but with a lot of their classes being directly related to industry certs I figured why not.
Any time I read "capstone" though I think diploma mill.
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Find an accredited public university which offers night classes. Fuck online classes.