Darrel Hoffman

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May 21	awarded	Enthusiast
Feb 27	awarded	Caucus
Dec 10	awarded	Analytical
Dec 5	comment	Is “watermarking” code with random trailing whitespace a good way to detect plagiarism? It's a good way to prove that code was copied, but not a good way to prevent any but the most amateur coders from copying it. When I worked as a teaching assistant and had to grade lots of students' code, we used this as one of several ways to detect code theft. (In this case, cheating off other students - they tend to be very bad about leaving extra whitespace all over the place.) I can't imagine that it'd be much use outside of an educational setting though.
Nov 21	comment	Is there an excuse for short variable names? If I saw `dDinnerAperture` by itself, I'd read it as "Dinner Aperture", and wonder if it's just a funny way of saying "your mouth". Never been a fan of the "capital letter followed by lower-case word) style. Very confusing sometimes.
Oct 18	comment	Why use other number bases when programming 26 x 2 + 10 = All capital and lower-case letters and all numbers. Not really that unusual. I've also seen Base 36 used, which is just the non-case-sensitive version of same.
Oct 9	awarded	Teacher
Oct 9	answered	Which order to define getters and setters in?