Monthly Archives: January 2023

Error Message Video

Posted on January 18, 2023 by agiletribeadmin

Here is a video tutorial giving an overview of the error message problem.

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Numbered Error Messages Do Not Work

Posted on January 18, 2023 by agiletribeadmin

As part of a series of posts about error messages, this post covers a very specific claim: a single error message picked from a list of error messages is a bad idea and produces poor error reporting.  We start with … Continue reading →

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Code Copy Guidelines

Posted on January 17, 2023 by keith swenson

This post presents some guideline reduce duplicates in the code. Whenever you notice that you’re writing blocks of code that are substantially similar, try to make a routine (method) that embodies that code and call it from all the places. … Continue reading →

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Variable Naming

Posted on January 17, 2023 by keith swenson

Here are some coding guidelines about using meaningful names in the program. Most of them are taken from from Clean code book Choosing good names takes time but saves more than it takes.

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Canonical Execution Error Example

Posted on January 16, 2023 by agiletribeadmin

If we are going to talk about error messages, we need to flesh out a typical computation scenario within which an error occurs.  I use this example in other places to talk about possible error messages.

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