Re: Howdy (new in here)

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 15:54 -0500, tedd wrote: > At 2:20 PM -0500 2/15/11, Mujtaba Arshad wrote: > >I would say all languages have their 'lousy developers', however, since very > >few schools focus on teaching the 'proper coding style' for PHP it leads to > >people learning from a variety of resources available online, and this leads > >to them receiving mixed messages from the tutorials and allowing people the > >ability to choose the method they prefer. Since there is very little > >syntactic consistency among the code produced by developers, it leads to the > >perception that the developers are 'lousy'. > > I don't know if I buy that or not -- I didn't learn programming in school. > > I learned by using rocks instead of ones. It was a few years later > that we created the concept of using the absence of rocks as zeros > and were finally able to build things other than pyramids. > > Style became a matter of choice -- it's what makes sense to you and > that usually works. > > For example, while it's true that Rob and I disagree on brace style, > there are many different types to choose from. > > This is what I show my students: > > http://rebel.lcc.edu/sperlt/citw229/brace-styles.php > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com/ > Tedd: Your bracing style is WRONG. Whitesmiths Style sucks... and Allman Style is the best way to do it. :) My personal bracing style is the Allman Style... I've been doing it that way forever, it just made sense to me (even before I knew there was that style name... which was about 3 minutes ago). everything lined up nice and neat. Steve