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01/18/11 09:27
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 		 #180679 - Standard mistakes.
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Jan Waclawek said:
As with any other teaching activity, the teacher could not know beforehand what exactly is that the pupil won't know or understand.

That's why it's hard to write instructionally bad code. You never know what to make wrong.


Everyone who doesn't know better starts out with some standard mistakes, e.g. liberal use of magic numbers and such.

Even if you can't predict some of the more exotic mistakes that some of the students will make, there are many, many standard mistakes that need to be ironed out in almost every case.

And the list of "known" mistakes is quite long (and funny):

http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

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   Apprenticeship            01/01/70 00:00      
      Always good to read code            01/01/70 00:00      
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      Nice! :)            01/01/70 00:00      
   Becoming an "efficient firmware architect"            01/01/70 00:00      
      Professional training classes            01/01/70 00:00      
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      Stumbling stone is commercialism            01/01/70 00:00      
      my initial offerings            01/01/70 00:00      
         Great!            01/01/70 00:00      
      A more fundamental problem            01/01/70 00:00      
         Hardware-specific vs. "good code".            01/01/70 00:00      
            source of inspiration            01/01/70 00:00      
               Intentionally bad vs. unintentionally bad?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Hard to intentionally write really bad code            01/01/70 00:00      
                     why it's hard to write bad code...            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Standard mistakes.            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Brilliant link            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Bad code that actually works.            01/01/70 00:00      
                     it takes a genius            01/01/70 00:00      
         Good code for teaching            01/01/70 00:00      
            _More_ than just MISRA? *heartattack*            01/01/70 00:00      
            Pedagogical            01/01/70 00:00      
            and there's the rub            01/01/70 00:00      
               Problem with commenting too            01/01/70 00:00      
               Many hands make light work            01/01/70 00:00      
         Arduino            01/01/70 00:00      
            No need for reference hw            01/01/70 00:00      
               Beautiful Code            01/01/70 00:00      
                  There are lots of books on good coding practices ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     And that was the OP's specific question!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Another Fundamental Tenet            01/01/70 00:00      
         Critisism            01/01/70 00:00      
   studying code ...            01/01/70 00:00      
      Even high-end embedded suffers            01/01/70 00:00      
         I agree, but            01/01/70 00:00      

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