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In a consulting company where the general thought of TDD and automated testing as a whole is appreciated by the programmers but thought of as "been there, done that, doesn't work" by management, how would you convince the powers that be to approve the...
Started by Barbog on
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To be specific, this is not a question on why is TDD good but how to encourage management to adopt.
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Security is of increasing importance yet the vast majority of universities have no courses on this topic. What can we do to encourage universities at large to close this gap? The only mechanisms that exist for learning how to write secure code is a few...
Started by jm04469 on
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I had a bunch of very specific knowledge about....
I wish universities made some huge changes to that way they set up their curriculum, in general - when I graduated with my programming degree, I found that was completely not prepared to join the real world .
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I saw this question that got closed for being subjective and argumentative and this one on how to encourage someone in general. I felt like the first was a valid question, but perhaps the question was put forward in the wrong manner. The second doesn'...
Started by tvanfosson on
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How can we encourage more....
Then that will certainly not encourage women to join us in the workplace, but that's true of any male daughters and if any one of them shows some aptitude then I will encourage them to be programmers ups.
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During pair programming at our company, I'm the one who usually ends up talking the most. I usually think out loud my thought process. My partner sits in front of the computer and does the coding (typing?). I encourage others to think out loud so I won...
Started by MrValdez on
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Instead of going "Well, I think that a dictionary would be the best structure to use here" go "Well, I think we need a good data structure here, as it's a critical path, and I'm not... .
Ask questions, like "how do you think we should do this?"
Questions .
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Hi, this week i try to explain to some students the importance to learn some algorithms and other stuff that help me in my career, but i don't know how to demostrate the real importance of this things. Then i think in games, IMO every teen love to play...
Started by Agusti-N on
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I think it is important to get kids involved in learning, but sometimes games... .
Any kind of waypoints or similar will use this topic .
However, an easy example of algorithms in games is A* pathfinding .
Kind of hard to understand what you're trying to ask .
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So, I work in a fairly small IT section. We have a trouble ticketing system that about half of our end users use. Some of my coworkers don't really do much to encourage our end users to use the system we have in place. The end result? Constant interruptions...
Started by Jason Baker on
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Remember that the more similar the person.
It will encourage good behavior because of the bandwagon effect.
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I found JPA, or alike, don't encourage DAO pattern. I don't know, but I feel like that, especially with server managed JTA managers.
After adequate hands-on using DAO pattern, I started designing JPA based application around that pattern. But it doesn...
Started by Adeel Ansari on
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But it may still be justified for more.
Is indeed that this is what JPA and the Java EE API encourage.
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The goal of IDEs is increase productivity. They do a great job at that. Refactoring, navigation, inline documentation, auto completion help increase productivity immensely.
But: Every tool is a weapon . The very same IDE helps to produce chunk code. Some...
Started by Thomas Jung on
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Be aware of the flags that....
Know about the runtime system.
Be able to invoke the compiler from the command line .
Have some insight into the flags that it passes.
Know that your IDE is actually invoking the compiler.
Know what's going on under the hood.
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The more I am in the industry the more it appears to me that the average developers that I have met along my way are not really passionate about getting better in any way (e.g. reading books or articles, participating in communities outside the company...
Started by Thomas Wanner on
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Also, because you put one.
But I think it's a good way to share knowledge and encourage conversation.
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When i worked as an administrator in my first job, I was frustrated our administration processes with Windows servers were a series of point-and-clicks; we could never match the level of efficiency with the Unix servers which had a group of shell scripts...
Started by icelava on
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Are some means to encourage and motivate administrators that scripting can really help them to be a mandate? Why do you need to encourage people to use scripting just because you like to use it? Why.
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