Which programming task do you hate most?
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Debugging is what i hate most. Sometimes you have done all the work on the project you are working on and there is a small bug lurking behind the code. I've spent hours trying to figure out why something is not working and then find out that i forgot to use == instead of = in an if statement. Drives me crazy.
The solution for that one is trivial! #pragma warning(error : 4706) // Assignment in conditional
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The solution for that one is trivial! #pragma warning(error : 4706) // Assignment in conditional
Better yet, treat ALL warnings as errors. I have NO warnings in my code, when I started here the project had something like 250. I spent a lot of my own time fixing that, because I couldn't convince the boss it was a problem ( the program compiles, it works &tc ). But VC++ doesn't ALWAYS warn you when you've made the ==/= mistake, because I still find at times I spend an hour looking for it. Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Building the installation program and then testing it on all the different versions of Windows, with and without IE, Outlook, etc. (we need an icon here for sleeping)
I'm with you there - when install time comes here, we all fight over it ( you do it, no YOU do it ). The other one for me was printing code. Being the only non-3D guy here ( just never had time to learn it ), I do all the other stuff, and that included printing. Weeks of printouts and the boss saying stuff like "Increase the resolution" and "The aspect ratio isn't quite right, is it ?". We were printing from Direct3D, so increasing the resolution wasn't as dumb a request as it sounds. Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Debugging is what i hate most. Sometimes you have done all the work on the project you are working on and there is a small bug lurking behind the code. I've spent hours trying to figure out why something is not working and then find out that i forgot to use == instead of = in an if statement. Drives me crazy.
The best way to minimize that bug is to put constants on the LHS of the == operator:
if ( MY_CONST == nSomeVar ) ...
Since you can't assign a value to a constant, the compiler will puke when you try to build. Jon Sagara Sagara Software -
Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
In one word: WebDevelopment (ASP/HTML), just hate it. - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Finding and fixing a fundamental design error in someone else's code!
DITTO!!! and on top of that you come across really bizarre code like,
try
{
// do some stuff
}
catch (ExceptionTypeA* pEx)
{
throw new ExceptionTypeB(pEx->GetMessage()); // X|
}Also, I find a lot of code written by some body else that crashes *inside* catch block. X| :) ;) ;P :-D :cool: Farhan Noor Qureshi
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In one word: WebDevelopment (ASP/HTML), just hate it. - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
And making HTML look/work the same on Netscape X| (a.k.a. Cross browser coding) :) ;) ;P :-D :cool: Farhan Noor Qureshi
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
Hello, the codegurus around the world.;) I fixed a couple of bugs which Sr. developer (15-20 years exp) can't fix.:(( :(( In fact, my company never asked me to fix these bugs, but unless I try to fix these bugs, I can't complete my project.:(( So far, I feel that I'm lucky.:rolleyes: Have a nice day!
-Masaaki Onishi-
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And making HTML look/work the same on Netscape X| (a.k.a. Cross browser coding) :) ;) ;P :-D :cool: Farhan Noor Qureshi
True, couldn't agree more.:)
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
Planning, Planning, ... And tell my boss how much time I need
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Finding and fixing a fundamental design error in someone else's code!
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Working on someone else's code which contains fundamental design errors that you aren't allowed to fix!
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
Making HTML cross browser and cross platform compliant i.e. Netscape. My other pet hate is extending other peoples code. Everyone has their own style of coding and it can be a nightmare. OF course I am sure other people hate extending my code too :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Chretien Malesherbes
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
Everything that is close to programming but is not programming. Documenting, time & cost estimates, managing a group of programmers, charging customers. Everything else is fun. :cool: Furor fit laesa saepius patientia
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
Time and cost estimates -- nothing frightens me more than when my manager walks into my office and begins his sentence with "Um, how hard would it be...".:eek:
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
I hate the actual typing in of the code. I love the design and specification side of it and working out classes and objects etc. I really hate the typing of the code, especially if it is boring stuff like read data from a recordset or setting the columns of a list control. Luckily I'm starting to build up a good library of code and templates help a great deal too. I just hate the typing :-) Michael :-)
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
I can not stand debugging one of my programs when it works on my comp, but it doesn't work correctly on someone else's. Visit Ltpb.8m.com Surf the web faster than ever: http://www.404Browser.com
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
I like most parts of programming (since solving problems is the whole reason I like it). However, I really don't like the times where I'm told to write such-and-such an application, but finding out how it's supposed to look and behave is worse than pulling teeth with scotch tape. When that happens, I generally have to scrap a bunch of code and re-write it later since I didn't know about one "little" thing it needed to do. John
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Which programming task do you hate most? Debugging multithreaded programs? Ensuring that program runs on all Windows versions? Database access? Image processing? Parsing text files? Network stuff? Error handling? Talking to middle-level managers doesn't count :-D Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
Well how about this! Correcting tests for 40 students "code written down on paper" X| Explaining the same stuff over and over again :eek: Grading projects :confused: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world." -Albert Einstein
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Debugging is what i hate most. Sometimes you have done all the work on the project you are working on and there is a small bug lurking behind the code. I've spent hours trying to figure out why something is not working and then find out that i forgot to use == instead of = in an if statement. Drives me crazy.