The annoying parts of coding.

[Cam]

Basically a rant thread!

I find that just forgetting things put for example <!-- //--> and forgetting to do the last one is so annoying! I sit there working out what the error is and then realise it's just that.

Another thing is when it goes wrong and doesn't work, you sit there coding for an hour or more/less and then test it and it doesn't work.

Yes, coding is trial and error and isn't easy, but it would be interesting to know what other people find annoying too.

[Nick]

Is it wrong to say semicolons?

[Justin]

definitely semicolons , you forget one, your code doesn't work, and they're hard to locate .

[Nick]

Actually those ones aren't bad because you just have to look at the end of the lines. What's really annoying if you have a bunch of if and else statements and you forget to indent, and you get an error that one is missing a }

[Cam]

At least with JS semicolons aren't always needed

[Mark Knight Day]

I'm still learning but it's the remembering of everything for me which ticks me off

[moneyman18]

Accidentally doing things like if($variable = 'value') instead of if($variable == 'value') and getting a different result than expected.

[Cam]

Another one would be looping, still need to master it >.<

[Jordan]

Jun 14, 2011 7:15:52 GMT Cam said:

Another one would be looping, still need to master it >.<

Program a loop or loops to draw a Christmas tree of any size, and it will help you understand the process.

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[xcessive]

Recursion and Dynamic Programming. Its useful, but I hate it, especially trying to debug using the stack trace when its 1000s of lines long.

[Cam]

Jun 14, 2011 22:48:43 GMT Jordan said:

Jun 14, 2011 7:15:52 GMT Cam said:

Another one would be looping, still need to master it >.<

Program a loop or loops to draw a Christmas tree of any size, and it will help you understand the process.

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I can do it, it's just some parts to do with looping on PB forums.

[Nick]

That first part that's supposed to be on all html pages

[Cam]

I put a ' randomly in a code which mucked up all the coding on this forum yesterday, small things are big in result

[(/iPokemon/)]

Jun 13, 2011 12:16:50 GMT moneyman18 said:

Accidentally doing things like if($variable = 'value') instead of if($variable == 'value') and getting a different result than expected.

Ugh, I do this all the time! I type too fast for my brain to recognize what I typed lol.

Semicolons semicolons semicolons..
and forgetting closing brackets is bad too.
Or if you you're using like
if(is_numeric("d"){
and you forget the second ).

[Cam]

I can type quite quick using normal English but I have to slow down for coding

[(/iPokemon/)]

I'm about the same on both.
Takes time to think about what to write next.
I took a typing class this year, and my highest WPM was 82 I think. I'd suppose I code at about 40-50.

[Cam]

Ooh typing tests! I got around the same as you too, though they made me do that on a keyboard and not a laptop keyboard