Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Nov. 24, 2020
What do you think an object is in OOP? No matter what language you are programming with, you will most probably agree with Bruce Eckel, the author of Thinking in Java, who said that “each object has a state and operations that you can ask it to perform,” or Benjamin Evans, the author of Java in a…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Nov. 15, 2020
This is the seventh year of the Software Quality Award. The maximum prize is still the same—$4,096. The rules are still the same. Read on. Previous years are here: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Here is the form to fill out. Rules: One person can submit only one project. Submissions are accept…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Nov. 10, 2020
In 1974, Liskov and Zilles defined a strongly-typed language as one in which “whenever an object is passed from a calling function to a called function, its type must be compatible with the type declared in the called function.” Strong type checking, without doubt, decreases the amount of type erro…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Nov. 3, 2020
A few days ago I asked my Twitter followers to vote in a simple poll. They did, screaming in comments that only a stupid incompetent manager would ask programmers to send daily reports, while everything they do can easily be tracked in tickets, Git history, and so on. Indeed, why on earth would a…
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on Oct. 27, 2020
Encapsulation, as you know, is one of the four key principles in object-oriented programming. Encapsulation, according to Grady Booch et al., is “the process of hiding all the secrets of an object that do not contribute to its essential characteristics.” Practically speaking, it’s about those priva…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Oct. 13, 2020
Do you know the most typical mistake startup founders make when they pitch their ideas to investors? According to Jake Mendel from Silicon Valley Bank, they often focus on the solution they propose instead of the problem they are trying to solve. Inability to identify the problem is the common caus…