As per title, ran this across various languages. Results are mixed, but IMHO, it seems unsafe to design your functions/methods this way. It would be better to pass in the object, compute the changes without modifying the object, return the computed changes and assign it back to the original variable. Below are sample code snippets …
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When we design a user interface (UI) for our application, we want it to be user-friendly, for the user to have a good user experience (UX). How about application programming interfaces (API)? Shouldn’t an API be designed to be user-friendly as well? And in this case, who are the main users/consumers of APIs? Developers, of …
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In today’s edition (Fri 04 Jul 2014) of the TODAY newspaper, there is an article in the Comment & Analysis section titled “How to teach children computer programming”. It mentions that more and more countries are introducing programming, also known as coding, into their schools. This brought to mind the famous Youtube video by code.org in Feb 2013, …
