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Read this before you send your assignment 1.1

 
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Hi guys,
When I first looked at the assignment 1.1 I thought to myself this is so easy and immediately mailed my solution and was jolted when I read the nitpicked mail. Though no logical errors occured it contained all the other errors imaginable. Every line contained one. Read the common mistakes before you mail your completed assignments.
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My suggestion is read that and the style guide twice. I read both once and still managed to get enough stupid mistakes
 
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And then read the style guide again. Because if you don't you can be sure that the nit-pickers'll get you.
 
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Spacing around identifiers is a real sneaky one! I suggest reading that part 3 times! :^) It's not hard to understand, just hard to do consistently if you're not used to it. I made spacing mistakes on all 3 of the assignments I've done so far.
 
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Thanks for the tips. I've read most of the posts on the first assignment and I've just sent it off, so hopefully I won't get nitpicked too much! Cross your fingers!
 
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Good luck.
 
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One of the reasons the first couple assignments are so easy is because we are trying to get you used to the style guide and writing clean looking code.
I am doing the 12th assigment now and I find most of the spacing and style is just automatic. I also find that I use this style in everything else I code which is great. It really instills in you a sense of writing good and easy to follow code.
It may seem like a little bit of a pain or tedious, but it really has helped me. And I think it has helped the work I do in my job as my code is so much cleaner now.
Bill
 
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I agree. I find it much easier to read code with the style guide from here as opposed to other style guides. It's always easier to create an unreadible or unreusable mess than it is to create readable, well documented, object oriented code. Probably because you actually have to think and write more to accomplish better code. Kinda like the old adage: It's easier to do wrong than it is to do right or something like that.
IMHO of course
Joe
 
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