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Archive for August, 2018

Steps for building an application the right way

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018

When building an application, and specially when building FIRST application, most beginners make a lot of mistakes, primarily due to two reasons: lack of experience and carelessness towards any established standards and conduits, based on the “I don’t care how, but it works!”… Read more

Stack vs Heap memory

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Today we are going to talk all about memory. There are multiple types of memory when it comes to software, but for now we are only interested in two of them: the Stack and the Heap. Whenever we execute a program, its instructions are loaded into the RAM of the computer, and the operating system will allocate a bunch of physical RAM, so that the executable can run.… Read more

Breakpoints and local variables

Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

Breakpoints are arguably the most used feature in the process of debugging. As their name suggests, they are literally a point where the execution of your program will break, or more precisely, will pause. Whenever the execution of a program is in this paused state, which isn’t design time, but it’s neither runtime (you could say it is an intermediary between these two states), we say that the program is in debug time, or debugging mode.… Read more

First steps in Debugging: understanding common errors

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

As I said many times, debugging is the process of correcting errors in the codes of your programs. That is only partially true. Debugging is also about understanding the error and understanding why the bug was there in the first place.… Read more

The Using directive

Sunday, August 5th, 2018

.NET provides a simplified and easier way of working with resources that needs to be disposed (released when we no longer need them) through construct called a Using directive. Here is an example of how we can read a filename (just like in our previous two lessons) and automatically release it when we are done dealing with it, using this keyword:

By enclosing the declaration of our reader variable inside the using instruction, we can use it just as we normally would, but we don’t need to worry about releasing the file when we are done with it.… Read more

Try Catch Finally

Friday, August 3rd, 2018

Continuing from the last lesson, we now know that every time we deal with codes that might generate errors, we should use a Try Catch code construct. You should also know that this great construct offers one more great feature, a Finally block.… Read more


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