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CodeCraft
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Hi All,
My success in learning QM has inspired me to learn more about programming in general (and to get better at QM!)

I am reading this book: Code Craft: The Practic of Writin Excellent Code by Pete Goodliffe.

It's pretty good and accessible for a non-trained programmer. Though I don't understand everything in the examples he uses (much C/C++), his points on design, efficiency, doing things right the first time, rather than hunting down silly errors later...all very useful.

Example. I used to all the time drop off the string type designator (e.g. Htm, Acc) and just redefine el or a for each new instance (because that was the default in the QM dialog). This works fine until much later I modify, copy, paste, etc and get the errors!!!
Now I define them logically for what I am trying to do. It's a bit of a pain up front but saves me a lot of hassle (and kicking myself in the butt) later!

Stuart
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typo..whoops:

Code Craft: The Practic of Writing Excellent Code by Pete Goodliffe

(LOL, just the kind of NOT excellent code error that would get me in trouble!!)
Stuart


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